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crotaline

crotaline adjective: resembling, or relating to, the Crotalinae, or rattlesnake subfamily.

Adjective

crotaline (comparative more crotaline, superlative most crotaline)

  1. Resembling, or relating to, the Crotalinae, or rattlesnake subfamily

Noun

crotaline (plural crotalines)

  1. Any snake of the subfamily Crotalinae

Forms of crotaline

Adjective
comparativemore crotaline
superlativemost crotaline
Noun
pluralcrotalines

Origin of crotaline

From translingual Crotalus + -ine.

Questions about crotaline

What does crotaline mean?
Crotaline means resembling, or relating to, the Crotalinae, or rattlesnake subfamily.
What part of speech is crotaline?
Crotaline can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near crotaline in the dictionary

  1. crotales
  2. crotalic
  3. crotalid
  4. crotalids
  5. crotalin
  6. crotaline
  7. crotalines
  8. crotalism
  9. crotaloid
  10. crotaloids
  11. crotalphine

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