colubrid

Other forms of colubrid

plural

colubrids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about colubrid

What does colubrid mean?

colubrid means "mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes".

How many syllables are in colubrid?

colubrid has 3 syllables: co-lu-brid. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for colubrid?

Close synonyms include colubrid snake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is colubrid a common word?

colubrid is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.