colubrid

col·u·brid  (kl-brd, kly-)

n.

Any of numerous, widely distributed, chiefly nonvenomous snakes of the family Colubridae, which includes the king snakes, garter snakes, and water snakes.

adj.

Of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubridae.

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[From New Latin Colubridae, family name, from Latin coluber, colubr-, snake.]

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colubrid [ˈkɒljʊbrɪd]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types

adj

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubridae

[from New Latin Colubridae, from Latin coluber snake]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

colubrid - mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes colubrid snake ophidian, serpent, snake - limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous Colubridae, family Colubridae - nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species hoop snake - any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop Carphophis amoenus, thunder snake, worm snake - small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States ring-necked snake, ringneck snake, ring snake - any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck hognose snake, puff adder, sand viper - harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed leaf-nosed snake - any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America green snake, grass snake - either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color green snake - any of numerous African colubrid snakes racer - slender fast-moving North American snakes whip snake, whip-snake, whipsnake - any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails rat snake - any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia Arizona elegans, glossy snake - nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales bull snake, bull-snake - any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes king snake, kingsnake - any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals garter snake, grass snake - any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes lined snake, Tropidoclonion lineatum - secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States ground snake, Sonora semiannulata - small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America eastern ground snake, Haldea striatula, Potamophis striatula - in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America water snake - any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water red-bellied snake, Storeria occipitamaculata - harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States sand snake - small North American burrowing snake black-headed snake - small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina vine snake - slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia lyre snake - mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America Hypsiglena torquata, night snake - nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico Drymarchon corais, gopher snake, indigo snake - large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico