colubrine

[ kol-uh-brahyn, -brin, -yuh- ]

adjective
  1. of or resembling a snake; snakelike.

  2. belonging or pertaining to the subfamily Colubrinae, comprising the typical colubrid snakes.

Origin of colubrine

1
1520–30; <Latin colubrīnus, equivalent to colubr- (stem of coluber) snake + -īnus-ine1

Words Nearby colubrine

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How to use colubrine in a sentence

  • There is always the colubrine equivalent of the personal equation to be taken into consideration.

    Jungle Folk | Douglas Dewar
  • Perhaps the most curious of the colubrine snakes is the egg-eating snake of South Africa.

British Dictionary definitions for colubrine

colubrine

/ (ˈkɒljʊˌbraɪn, -brɪn) /


adjective
  1. of or resembling a snake

  2. of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubrinae, a subfamily of harmless colubrid snakes

Origin of colubrine

1
C16: from Latin colubrīnus, from coluber snake

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