colubrine
Americanadjective
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of or resembling a snake; snakelike.
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belonging or pertaining to the subfamily Colubrinae, comprising the typical colubrid snakes.
adjective
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of or resembling a snake
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of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubrinae, a subfamily of harmless colubrid snakes
Etymology
Origin of colubrine
1520–30; < Latin colubrīnus, equivalent to colubr- (stem of coluber ) snake + -īnus -ine 1
Example Sentences
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Doctor Brazil informed me that the mussurama, like the king-snake, was not immune to the colubrine poison.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
The doctor first put on the table a non-poisonous but very vicious and truculent colubrine snake.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
The two species of poisonous colubrine serpents already referred to are known respectively as the Elaps fulvius, and the Elaps euryxanthus, both of which occur in the southern portions of the United States.
From Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by Harris, H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy)
Natrix, nā′triks, n. a genus of colubrine snakes.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
It is immune to viper poison but it is not immune to colubrine poison.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
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