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colubrine

/ˈkɒljəˌbɹaɪn/

colubrine adjective: snakelike.

Adjective

colubrine (comparative more colubrine, superlative most colubrine)

  1. Snakelike.
    • A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4
  2. Relating to snakes.

Noun

colubrine (plural colubrines)

  1. Any snake of the subfamily Colubrinae

Forms of colubrine

Adjective
comparativemore colubrine
superlativemost colubrine
Noun
pluralcolubrines

Origin of colubrine

From Latin colubrinus, from colubra (“snake”) + -inus (“-ine”).

Words formed from colubrine

Phrases with colubrine

Questions about colubrine

What does colubrine mean?
Colubrine means snakelike.
What part of speech is colubrine?
Colubrine can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce colubrine?
Colubrine is pronounced /ˈkɒljəˌbɹaɪn/.

Words near colubrine in the dictionary

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

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