colubrid snakes

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• 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 — [käl′yo͞o brid΄] n. any of a large, worldwide family (Colubridae) of generally nonpoisonous snakes, including garter snakes, racers, and kingsnakes adj. of or having to do with this family …   English World dictionary

• Colubrid — Colubridae Temporal range: Oligocene to Recent Caspian whipsnake, Coluber caspius Scientific classification Kingdom …   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 — 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

• 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 — [ kɒljʊbrɪd] noun Zoology a snake of a very large family (Colubridae) which includes the majority of harmless species, such as grass snakes …   English new terms dictionary

• List of snakes of South Asia (Colubridae) — The following is a list of colubrid snakes of South Asia, primarily covering the region covered by mainland India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, parts of Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Island chains. This forms part of the… …   Wikipedia

• rat snake — noun any of various nonvenomous rodent eating snakes of North America and Asia • Hypernyms: ↑colubrid snake, ↑colubrid • Hyponyms: ↑corn snake, ↑red rat snake, ↑Elaphe guttata, ↑black rat snake, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Racer — may refer to:Snakes: * Coluber , a genus of harmless colubrid snakes. * Drymobius , a.k.a. neotropical racers, a genus of harmless colubrid snakes. * Masticophis , a.k.a. whip snakes or coachwhips, a genus of harmless genus of colubrid snakes. *… …   Wikipedia