English Explanatory Dictionary

colubrid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous.

Word forms

colubrid colubrids

Etymology

From translingual Colubridae, from the genus translingual Coluber, from Latin coluber (“snake”).

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