n. A long whip used by the driver of a horse-drawn coach.
n. Masticophis flagellum, a colubrid snake of North America.
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n. desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
n. a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip
Word Usage
"He had been finely striped from nape to knees with something like a coachwhip, the weals crisscrossing neatly like hemstitching."