A striped racer, also known as the California whipsnake, is a species of non-venomous snake native to the coast and foothills of California. It is a long, slender, and fast-moving snake, identified by its distinctive stripes running down the length of its body. They primarily feed on lizards and small rodents. The scientific name for this species is Masticophis lateralis.
Hieratic
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Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modifiedform of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerlysupposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposedto be that of the people.It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds ofwriting used by the Egyptians, two -- for that reason calledhieroglyphic and hieratic -- were employed only for sacred, while thethird, the demotic, was employed for secular, purposes. No suchdistinction is discoverable on the more ancient Egyptian monuments;bur we retain the old names founded on misapprehension. W. H. Ward(Johnson's Cyc.).
Hieratic meaning & definition 1 of Hieratic.
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Of or concerning priests.
Hieratic meaning & definition 2 of Hieratic.
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