COLUBRID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colubrid mean? 

• COLUBRID (noun)
  The noun COLUBRID has 1 sense:

1. mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes

  Familiarity information: COLUBRID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLUBRID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

colubrid; colubrid snake

Hypernyms ("colubrid" is a kind of...):

ophidian; serpent; snake (limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colubrid"):

king snake; kingsnake (any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals)

Drymarchon corais; gopher snake; indigo snake (large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico)

Hypsiglena torquata; night snake (nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico)

lyre snake (mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America)

vine snake (slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia)

black-headed snake (small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina)

sand snake (small North American burrowing snake)

red-bellied snake; Storeria occipitamaculata (harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States)

water snake (any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water)

eastern ground snake; Haldea striatula; Potamophis striatula (in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America)

ground snake; Sonora semiannulata (small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America)

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)

garter snake; grass snake (any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes)

bull-snake; bull snake (any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes)

Arizona elegans; glossy snake (nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales)

rat snake (any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia)

whip-snake; whip snake; whipsnake (any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails)

racer (slender fast-moving North American snakes)

green snake (any of numerous African colubrid snakes)

grass snake; green snake (either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color)

leaf-nosed snake (any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America)

hognose snake; puff adder; sand viper (harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed)

ring-necked snake; ring snake; ringneck snake (any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck)

Carphophis amoenus; thunder snake; worm snake (small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States)

hoop snake (any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop)

Holonyms ("colubrid" is a member of...):

Colubridae; family Colubridae (nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species)

 Context examples 

Elapids belong to a larger group of snakes known as colubrids—active foragers that use a variety of methods, including venom to capture and kill prey.

(Researchers find oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes, NSF)