Definitions for colubrid

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colubrid col·u·brid

Spelling: [kol-uh-brid, -yuh-]

IPA: /ˈkɒl ə brɪd, -yə-/

Colubrid is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 233 anagrams from letters in colubrid (bcdiloru).

Definitions for colubrid

noun

1. any of numerous, typically harmless snakes constituting the family Colubridae, having no vestigial limbs, a scale-covered head and body with a mostly bare face, and belly scales usually as wide as the body, including garter snakes, bull snakes, water snakes, racers, vine and tree snakes, and other temperate-to-tropical species, comprising about two-thirds of all living snakes.

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the Colubridae.

Origin of colubrid

1885-90; New Latin Colubridae name of the family, equivalent to Colubr- (stem of Coluber a genus, Latin coluber snake) + -idae -id²

Examples for colubrid

The systematic status of the colubrid snake, Leptodeiradiscolor Gnther.

The Mexican snakes of the genera Sonora and Chionactis, with notes on the status of other colubrid genera.

Notes on the variation in and distribution of the Mexican colubrid snake Coniophanes lateritius.

Male combat in American colubrid snakes with remarks on combat in other colubrid and elapid snakes.

The smaller non-venemous Serpents, such as the colubrid, have two rows of teeth in the roof of the mouth.

The food of some colubrid snakes from Fort Benning, Georgia.