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Definition of Colubrid
1. Noun. Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes.
Generic synonyms: Ophidian, Serpent, Snake
Group relationships: Colubridae, Family Colubridae
Specialized synonyms: Hoop Snake, Carphophis Amoenus, Thunder Snake, Worm Snake, Ring Snake, Ring-necked Snake, Ringneck Snake, Hognose Snake, Puff Adder, Sand Viper, Leaf-nosed Snake, Grass Snake, Green Snake, Green Snake, Racer, Whip Snake, Whip-snake, Whipsnake, Rat Snake, Arizona Elegans, Glossy Snake, Bull Snake, Bull-snake, King Snake, Kingsnake, Garter Snake, Grass Snake, Lined Snake, Tropidoclonion Lineatum, Ground Snake, Sonora Semiannulata, Eastern Ground Snake, Haldea Striatula, Potamophis Striatula, Water Snake, Red-bellied Snake, Storeria Occipitamaculata, Sand Snake, Black-headed Snake, Vine Snake, Lyre Snake, Hypsiglena Torquata, Night Snake, Drymarchon Corais, Gopher Snake, Indigo Snake
Definition of Colubrid
1. Noun. Any snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colubrid
1. any of a large family of snakes [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colubrid
Literary usage of Colubrid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to by John van Denburgh (1922)
"colubrid^ This family contains a large number of snakes in which the belly is
covered with a series of large plates; the head plates are large and more or ..."
2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"colubrid^: with solid teeth, not grooved or tubular. Non-venomous. Subfamily i.
... colubrid.E with fangs in the front of the upper jaw. Venomous. ..."
3. The Amphibians of Western North America by Joseph Richard Slevin (1890)
"colubrid^E This family contains a large number of snakes in which the belly is
covered with a series of large plates; the head plates are large and more or ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"Almost any colubrid snake makes fair progress in the water, notwithstanding the
absence both of a compressed tail and of a vertical fin. ..."
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