colubrid snake

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscolubrid

   Broadersnake

   Narrowerhoop snakethunder snakeringneck snakehognose snakeleaf-nosed snakegreen snakeracerwhip-snakerat snakeglossy snake

   Part ofColubridae

Questions about colubrid snake

What does colubrid snake mean?

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

What is another word for colubrid snake?

Close synonyms include colubrid. 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 snake a common word?

colubrid snake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.