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Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
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colubrid
Word definitions for colubrid in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes [syn: colubrid snake ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
colubrid \colubrid\ n. any member of a large family ( Colubridae ) of mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes. Syn: colubrid snake.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous.
Usage examples of colubrid.
Cleanup and maintenance was the job of the service robots, but ever since the incident when the Doradan Colubrid ambassador had accidentally been left to sit and patiently starve to death while robots dutifully dusted and mopped and polished around and over her, human supervisors had made occasional routine inspections.
He had the patience of a man who had once spent two days and nights immersed in the oozy swamps of Doradus Nine, ears and nostrils stopped while he breathed through a narrow straw and troops of Doradan Colubrids sought to exact revenge for the death of their ancestral leader.
It was secreted on the spot by a bunch of Doradan Colubrids, an' for the moment it stays here.