colubrine

colubrine
/kol"euh bruyn', -brin, -yeuh-/, adj.
1. of or resembling a snake; snakelike.
2. belonging or pertaining to the subfamily Colubrinae, comprising the typical colubrid snakes.
[1520-30; < L colubrinus, equiv. to colubr- (s. of coluber) snake + -inus -INE1]

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