Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A general term for innocuous serpents, as distinguished from
Viperina or Thanatophidia. - More definitely: A suborder of Ophidia, containing all the innocuous serpents with ungrooved and imperforate teeth and dilatable jaws. Also called
Colubriformia and Aglyphodontia. - The Aglyphodontia together with the Proteroglyphia, thus including venomous serpents of the families Elapidæ and Hydrophidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Colubrina.
Examples
-
Otherwise, vegetation is short and shrubby, consisting of herbs, grasses, and Ciperaceae, though the native Colubrina glandulosa var. reitzii does still occur on Trindade.
-
A forest dominated by Colubrina glandulosa var. reitzii covered 85% of Trindade until the mid 1700’s, when settled by 130 families from the Azores.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.