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GENUS COLUBER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Coluber mean?
• GENUS COLUBER (noun)
The noun GENUS COLUBER has 1 sense:
1. racers
Familiarity information: GENUS COLUBER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Racers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Coluber; genus Coluber
Hypernyms ("genus Coluber" is a kind of...):
reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)
Meronyms (members of "genus Coluber"):
racer (slender fast-moving North American snakes)
Coluber hippocrepis; horseshoe whipsnake (slender fast-moving Eurasian snake)
Holonyms ("genus Coluber" is a member of...):
Colubridae; family Colubridae (nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species)
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