Etymology

colubrid

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Today it means: Any snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous. Full definition →

translingual Colubridae ← Latin coluber
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  1. Latin · derived fromcoluber“snake”
  2. translingual · derived fromColuber
  3. translingual · borrowed fromColubridae
  4. English todaycolubrid

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

Words from the same roots

translingualColuber all →

colubriform

Latincoluber all →

colubriform

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.