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Definition of Coluber hippocrepis
1. Noun. Slender fast-moving Eurasian snake.
Exact synonyms: Horseshoe Whipsnake
Group relationships: Coluber, Genus Coluber
Generic synonyms: Racer
Group relationships: Coluber, Genus Coluber
Generic synonyms: Racer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coluber Hippocrepis
Literary usage of Coluber hippocrepis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eastern Persia: An Account of the Journeys of the Persian Boundary by WILLIAM THOMAS. BLANFORD, Beresford Lovett, India. Persian Boundary Commission (1876)
"... though not by Giinther, doubtless because of tin- difficulty of deciding to
which generic group Coluber hippocrepis, L., ..."
2. Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles by Constant Duméril, Gabriel Bibron (1854)
"Lacépède. Hist. Quadr. orip et Scff Tom. II, p. 320. 1801. Idem. Latreille. Hist.
Rept. Tom. IV, p. 130. 1802. Coluber hippocrepis. ..."