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colubrine
[ kol-uh-brahyn, -brin, -yuh- ]
/ ˈkɒl əˌbraɪn, -brɪn, -yə- /
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adjective
of or resembling a snake; snakelike.
belonging or pertaining to the subfamily Colubrinae, comprising the typical colubrid snakes.
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How to use colubrine in a sentence
There is always the colubrine equivalent of the personal equation to be taken into consideration.
Jungle Folk|Douglas DewarPerhaps the most curious of the colubrine snakes is the egg-eating snake of South Africa.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History|Theodore Wood
British Dictionary definitions for colubrine
colubrine
/ (ˈkɒljʊˌbraɪn, -brɪn) /
adjective
of or resembling a snake
of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubrinae, a subfamily of harmless colubrid snakes
Word Origin for colubrine
C16: from Latin colubrīnus, from coluber snake
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