colubrid

[ kol-uh-brid, -yuh- ]

noun

1. any of numerous, typically harmless snakes constituting the family Colubridae, having no vestigial limbs, a scale-covered head and body with a mostly bare face, and belly scales usually as wide as the body, including garter snakes, bull snakes, water snakes, racers, vine and tree snakes, and other temperate-to-tropical species, comprising about two-thirds of all living snakes.

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the Colubridae.

colubrid

/ ˈkɒljʊbrɪd /

noun

1. any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubridae

Word History and Origins

Origin of colubrid¹

1885–90; < New Latin Colubridae name of the family, equivalent to Colubr- (stem of Coluber a genus, Latin coluber snake) + -idae -id ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of colubrid¹

C19: from New Latin Colubridae, from Latin coluber snake

Example Sentences

The Mexican snakes of the genera Sonora and Chionactis, with notes on the status of other colubrid genera.

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Notes on the variation in and distribution of the Mexican colubrid snake Coniophanes lateritius.

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The systematic status of the colubrid snake, Leptodeiradiscolor Gnther.

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The food of some colubrid snakes from Fort Benning, Georgia.

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They conduct to the terrene genera of the great family Colubrid.

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