colubrid

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

col·u·brid

(kŏl′ə-brĭd, kŏl′yə-)

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

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

col′u·brid adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

colubrid

(ˈkɒljʊbrɪd)

(Animals) any snake of the family Colubridae, including many harmless snakes, such as the grass snake and whip snakes, and some venomous types

adj

(Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubridae

[C19: from New Latin Colubridae, from Latin coluber snake]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

col•u•brid

(ˈkɒl ə brɪd, -yə-)

n.

1. any usu. nonvenomous snake of the family Colubridae.

adj.

2. belonging or pertaining to the Colubridae.

[1885–90; < New Latin Colubridae <Coluber a genus (Latin: snake)]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

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

ringneck snake, ring-necked 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, whipsnake, whip-snake - 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

Translations

Natter

colúbrido culebra

полоз

References in periodicals archive ?

The Common Sharp-tailed Snake (Contia tenuis), named for its pointed tail tip, is a small colubrid snake with a geographic range extending from central California to the southern parts of British Columbia (Spalding 1995; Stebbins 2003; Feldman and Hoyer 2010).

DISCOVERIES OF THE COMMON SHARP-TAILED SNAKE (CONTIA TENUIS) IN THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS, WASHINGTON, 2013-2017

Thus, it was found useful to make a detailed study on the development of the sound transmitting apparatus of one of the Egyptian Colubrid snake, Malpolon monspessulaus.

Prenatal development of the sound transmitting apparatus in different embryonic stages of Malpolon monsspesulanus (squamata-serpentes)/ Desenvolvimento pre-natal do aparelho transmissor de som em diferentes estagios embrionarios de Malpolon monsspesulanus (Squamata-serpentes)

Snake venom serine proteinases (SVSPs) have been found in elapid, viperid, and colubrid venoms.

Quantitative Characterization of the Hemorrhagic, Necrotic, Coagulation-Altering Properties and Edema-Forming Effects of Zebra Snake (Naja nigricincta nigricincta) Venom

xyzReptiles most recently added a group of six new and exciting Corn Snake Morphs to their Colubrid lineup By meeting new and upcoming breeders at the last National Reptile Breeders Expo, the buying team at xyzReptiles was able to secure a steady source of quality and captively bred Corn Snake Morphs on a year round basis.

Exotic Pet Store xyzReptiles to Add Six New Corn Snake Morphs to Their Colubrid Lineup

Rarely, the boomslang (Dispholidus typus), a colubrid with a haemorrhagic venom, can cause potentially fatal bleeding.

Classifying snakebite in South Africa: validating a scoring system

It is a non-venomous colubrid snake found in the Indian subcontinent and is protected under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.

Juvenile snake discovered in Metro platform, rescued by Wildlife SOS

For example, scales of many colubrid species have a similar microornamentation pattern: they are lamellate-imbricate at the basal end and echinate at the apical end (Price and Kelly, 1989).

Surface morphology of dorsal scales of red cornsnakes (Pantherophis guttatus) and gray ratsnakes (Pantherophis spiloides) from Middle Tennessee

From 15 June to 8 July 2012, behavioral trials were conducted on 11 colubrid snake species to examine patterns in antipredation behavior at two sites in the Republic of Panama.