COLUBRIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Colubridae mean? 

• COLUBRIDAE (noun)
  The noun COLUBRIDAE has 1 sense:

1. nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species

  Familiarity information: COLUBRIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLUBRIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Colubridae; family Colubridae

Hypernyms ("Colubridae" is a kind of...):

reptile family (a family of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Colubridae"):

genus Lampropeltis; Lampropeltis (king snakes and milk snakes)

Drymarchon; genus Drymarchon (a genus of Colubridae)

genus Hypsiglena; Hypsiglena (night snakes)

genus Trimorphodon; Trimorphodon (lyre snakes)

genus Oxybelis; Oxybelis (vine snakes)

genus Tantilla; Tantilla (black-headed snakes)

Chilomeniscus; genus Chilomeniscus (sand snakes)

genus Storeria; Storeria (a genus of Colubridae)

genus Nerodia; Nerodia (North American water snakes)

genus Natrix; Natrix (water snakes; a cosmopolitan genus)

genus Haldea; Haldea; genus Potamophis; Potamophis; genus Sonora; Sonora (ground snakes)

genus Tropidoclonion; Tropidoclonion (lined snakes)

genus Thamnophis; Thamnophis (garter snakes)

genus Pituophis; Pituophis (bull snakes)

Arizona; genus Arizona (glossy snake)

genus Ptyas; Ptyas (Asian rat snakes)

Elaphe; genus Elaphe (North American rat snakes)

genus Masticophis; Masticophis (whip snakes)

Coluber; genus Coluber (racers)

Chlorophis; genus Chlorophis (African green snakes)

genus Opheodrys; Opheodrys (North American green snakes)

genus Phyllorhynchus; Phyllorhynchus (leaf-nosed snakes)

genus Heterodon; Heterodon (a genus of small colubrid snakes containing the North American hognose snakes)

Diadophis; genus Diadophis (a genus of reptiles of the family Colubridae including ringneck snakes)

Carphophis; genus Carphophis (thunder snake)

colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)

Holonyms ("Colubridae" is a member of...):

Ophidia; Serpentes; suborder Ophidia; suborder Serpentes (snakes)