Definition of Coluber hippocrepis

1. Noun. Slender fast-moving Eurasian snake.

Exact synonyms: Horseshoe Whipsnake
Group relationships: Coluber, Genus Coluber
Generic synonyms: Racer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coluber Hippocrepis

Colorado spruce
Colorado tick fever
Colored People's Time
Coloss.
Colossae
Colosseum
Colossian
Colossians
Colossus of Rhodes
Colour Index
Colson
Colton
Coluber
Coluber constrictor
Coluber constrictor flaviventris
Coluber hippocrepis (current term)
Colubrina
Columba
Columba fasciata
Columba livia
Columba palumbus
Columbia
Columbia-Wenatchi
Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
Columbia River
Columbia University
Columbia tiger lily
Columbian
Columbians
Columbidae

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. ..."

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