egg-eating snake
(亦作egg-eater)
noun
1- an Old World snake which swallows birds' eggs. It has weak teeth and the shells are broken by saw-like projections inside the gullet.食卵蛇。
1.1
- Subfamily Dasypeltinae, family Colubridae: genus Dasypeltis (of Africa, in particular the widespread D. scabra), and Elachistodon westermanni (of India).食卵蛇亚科, 遊蛇科：非洲的食卵蛇属（尤指分布广泛的非洲食卵蛇和印度食卵蛇）。