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单词 colubrine
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colubrine

[ kol-uh-brahyn, -brin, -yuh- ]
/ ˈkɒl əˌbraɪn, -brɪn, -yə- /

adjective

of or resembling a snake; snakelike.
belonging or pertaining to the subfamily Colubrinae, comprising the typical colubrid snakes.

Origin of colubrine

1520–30; <Latin colubrīnus, equivalent to colubr- (stem of coluber) snake + -īnus-ine1

Words nearby colubrine

coltish, Colton, Coltrane, coltsfoot, colubrid, colubrine, colugo, Colum, Columba, columbarium, columbary
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Example sentences from the Web for colubrine

  • Perhaps the most curious of the colubrine snakes is the egg-eating snake of South Africa.

    The Animal World, A Book of Natural History|Theodore Wood

  • There is always the colubrine equivalent of the personal equation to be taken into consideration.

    Jungle Folk|Douglas Dewar

British Dictionary definitions for colubrine

colubrine
/ (ˈkɒljʊˌbraɪn, -brɪn) /

adjective

of or resembling a snake
of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubrinae, a subfamily of harmless colubrid snakes

Word Origin for colubrine

C16: from Latin colubrīnus, from coluber snake
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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