colubrid

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Other popular species are the colubrid snake, veiled chameleon and crested gecko.

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  1. noun Any of numerous, widely distributed, chiefly nonvenomous snakes of the family Colubridae, which includes the king snakes, garter snakes, and water snakes.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or belonging to the Colubridae.

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  • Other popular species are the colubrid snake, veiled chameleon and crested gecko. —  Latest Articles
  • The systematic status of the colubrid snake, Leptodeira discolor Günther. —  Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
  • These results provide strong additional evidence that venom evolved once, at the base of the advanced snake radiation, rather than multiple times in different lineages, with these toxins also present in the venoms of the "colubrid" snake families. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. From New Latin Colubridae, family name, from Latin coluber, colubr-, snake.
 

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