Meanings
plural cribos
- Any of various snakes in the genus Drymarchon.
It is a singular fact that this snake, so fatal to man, has no power against another West Indian snake, almost equally common, namely, the cribo.
1871, Harper's Magazine, volume 43, page 844
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