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colubriform

colubriform adjective: having the form of a snake.

Adjective

colubriform (not comparable)

  1. Having the form of a snake
  2. Characteristic of snakes of the family Colubridae; colubrid

Noun

colubriform (plural colubriforms)

  1. Any snake of the clade Colubriformes

Forms of colubriform

pluralcolubriforms

Origin of colubriform

From Latin coluber and translingual Coluber + -iform.

From translingual Colubriformes.

Questions about colubriform

What does colubriform mean?
Colubriform means having the form of a snake.
What part of speech is colubriform?
Colubriform can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near colubriform in the dictionary

  1. coltstail
  2. colubrariid
  3. colubrariids
  4. colubrid
  5. colubrids
  6. colubriform
  7. colubriforms
  8. colubrine
  9. colubrine sea krait
  10. colubrine sea kraits
  11. colubrines

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