Meanings
nouncolubrid (plural colubrids)
plural colubrids
- Any snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounmostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
Similar
colubrid snake
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincoluber“snake”
- translingualColuber
- translingualColubridae
- Englishcolubrid
From translingual Colubridae, from the genus translingual Coluber, from Latin coluber (“snake”).
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Arabic مُعَطِّشَة
- مُعَطِّشَة (muʕaṭṭiša)snake in the family Colubridae
Finnish tarhakäärme
- tarhakäärmesnake in the family Colubridae
French colubridé
- colubridésnake in the family Colubridae
German Natter
- Nattersnake in the family Colubridae
Polish połoz
- połozsnake in the family Colubridae
Portuguese colubrídeo
- colubrídeosnake in the family Colubridae
Spanish colúbrido, culebra
- colúbridosnake in the family Colubridae
- culebrasnake in the family Colubridae
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Cite this entry
APA
colubrid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colubrid
MLA
“colubrid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colubrid. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colubrid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colubrid.
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