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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But the effect of the venom of the poisonous colubrine snakes is totally different from, although to the full as deadly as, the effect of the poison of the rattlesnake or jararaca.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
The only poisonous colubrine snakes in the New World are the ring- snakes, the coral-snakes of the genus elaps, which are found from the extreme southern United States southward to the Argentine.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
It is immune to viper poison but it is not immune to colubrine poison.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
As yet the doctor has not been able to develop an anti-venom serum which will neutralize the poison of these colubrine snakes.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
But the vital difference is that between all these poisons of the pit- vipers and the poisons of the colubrine snakes, such as the cobra and the coral-snake.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
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