COLUBRID

• COLUBRID (noun)
  The noun COLUBRID has 1 sense:

1. mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes

  Familiarity information: COLUBRID used as a noun is very rare.

• COLUBRID (noun)

Meaning:

Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

colubrid; colubrid snake

Hypernyms ("colubrid" is a kind of...):

ophidian; serpent; snake (limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colubrid"):

Drymarchon corais; gopher snake; indigo snake (large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows; found in southern North America and Mexico)

garter snake; grass snake (any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes)

lined snake; Tropidoclonion lineatum (secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods; feeds on earthworms; of central United States)

ground snake; Sonora semiannulata (small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America)

eastern ground snake; Haldea striatula; Potamophis striatula (in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America)

water snake (any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water)

red-bellied snake; Storeria occipitamaculata (harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States)

sand snake (small North American burrowing snake)

black-headed snake (small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina)

vine snake (slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia)

lyre snake (mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America)

Hypsiglena torquata; night snake (nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico)

king snake; kingsnake (any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals)

bull snake; bull-snake (any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes)

hoop snake (any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop)

Carphophis amoenus; thunder snake; worm snake (small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States)

ring snake; ring-necked snake; ringneck snake (any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck)

hognose snake; puff adder; sand viper (harmless North American snake with upturned nose; may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed)

leaf-nosed snake (any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America)

grass snake; green snake (either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color)

green snake (any of numerous African colubrid snakes)

racer (slender fast-moving North American snakes)

whip snake; whip-snake; whipsnake (any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails)

rat snake (any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia)

Arizona elegans; glossy snake (nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales)

Holonyms ("colubrid" is a member of...):

Colubridae; family Colubridae (nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species)