colubrid snake
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colubrid snake — noun mostly harmless temperate to tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes • Syn: ↑colubrid • Hypernyms: ↑snake, ↑serpent, ↑ophidian • Hyponyms: ↑hoop snake, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
colubrid — n. any member of a large family ({Colubridae}) of mostly harmless temperate to tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes. Syn: colubrid snake. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
colubrid — noun mostly harmless temperate to tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes • Syn: ↑colubrid snake • Hypernyms: ↑snake, ↑serpent, ↑ophidian • Hyponyms: ↑hoop snake, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Snake — Ophidian redirects here. For the professional wrestler, see The Osirian Portal. This article is about the animal. For other uses, see Snake (disambiguation). Snakes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous – Recent, 112–0 Ma … Wikipedia
snake — snakelike, adj. /snayk/, n., v., snaked, snaking. n. 1. any of numerous limbless, scaly, elongate reptiles of the suborder Serpentes, comprising venomous and nonvenomous species inhabiting tropical and temperate areas. 2. a treacherous person; an … Universalium
Colubrid — Colubridae Temporal range: Oligocene to Recent Caspian whipsnake, Coluber caspius Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
Snake venom — Contents 1 Chemistry 1.1 Neurotoxins 1.2 Cytotoxins 2 … Wikipedia
colubrid — /kol euh brid, yeuh /, n. 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… … Universalium
colubrid — noun Etymology: ultimately from Latin colubra snake Date: 1887 any of a large cosmopolitan family (Colubridae) of chiefly nonvenomous snakes • colubrid adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
colubrid — col•u•brid [[t]ˈkɒl ə brɪd, yə [/t]] n. 1) ram any usu. nonvenomous snake of the family Colubridae 2) ram belonging or pertaining to the Colubridae • Etymology: 1885–90; < NL Colubridae < Coluber a genus (L: snake) … From formal English to slang
