Word.ws English Dictionary

foxsnake

foxsnake noun: common name of three North American rat snakes of genus Pantherophis.

foxsnake: common name of three North American rat snakes of genus Pantherophis
Image: Patrick Jackson, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

foxsnake (plural foxsnakes)

  1. Common name of three North American rat snakes of genus Pantherophis.

Forms of foxsnake

pluralfoxsnakes

Origin of foxsnake

For its orange head.

Words formed from foxsnake

  • eastern fox snake
  • Pantherophis gloydi
  • Pantherophis vulpinus
  • western fox snake
  • Pantherophis ramspotti

Questions about foxsnake

What does foxsnake mean?
Foxsnake means common name of three North American rat snakes of genus Pantherophis.
What part of speech is foxsnake?
Foxsnake is a noun.
What is the plural of foxsnake?
The plural of foxsnake is foxsnakes.

Words near foxsnake in the dictionary

  1. foxsharks
  2. foxship
  3. foxshit
  4. foxskin
  5. foxskins
  6. foxsnake
  7. foxsnakes
  8. foxsona
  9. foxsonas
  10. foxtail
  11. foxtail barley

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: foxsnake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “foxsnake.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/foxsnake. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.