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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous.
2. 2
   mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

colubrid snakecolubrid snake

Example

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"It's not a viper, but a colubrid."

Etymology

From translingual Colubridae, from the genus translingual Coluber, from Latin coluber (“snake”).

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