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词汇 colubrid
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Definition of colubrid in English:

colubrid

noun ˈkɒljʊbrɪdˈkäl(y)əbrəd
Zoology
  • A snake of a very large family (Colubridae ) which includes the majority of harmless species, such as grass snakes and garter snakes. The few venomous species have grooved fangs in the rear of the upper jaw.

    〔动〕遊蛇科动物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The other snake I saw was a colubrid which I think was Coluber ventromaculatus.
    • It is usually assumed that albinism would be detrimental for a wild snake, but documented instances of albinism in natricines, and other colubrids, make this unclear.
    • Red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) are small nonvenomous colubrid snakes, a northeastern subspecies of a taxon (the common garter snake) that is widely distributed through North America.
    • This leaves open the possibility that vipers and elapids plus ‘colubrids’ may have evolved venom independently.
    • Among the more than 2,500 living species of snakes, mandibular transport mechanisms are known elsewhere only in a small number of cochleophagous (snail-eating) colubrids of the subfamilies Dipsadinae and Pareatinae.

Origin

Late 19th century: from modern Latin Colubridae (plural), from Latin coluber 'snake'.

Definition of colubrid in US English:

colubrid

nounˈkäl(y)əbrəd
Zoology
  • A snake of a very large family (Colubridae) which includes the majority of harmless species, such as grass snakes and garter snakes. The few venomous species have grooved fangs in the rear of the upper jaw.

    〔动〕遊蛇科动物

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among the more than 2,500 living species of snakes, mandibular transport mechanisms are known elsewhere only in a small number of cochleophagous (snail-eating) colubrids of the subfamilies Dipsadinae and Pareatinae.
    • This leaves open the possibility that vipers and elapids plus ‘colubrids’ may have evolved venom independently.
    • It is usually assumed that albinism would be detrimental for a wild snake, but documented instances of albinism in natricines, and other colubrids, make this unclear.
    • Red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) are small nonvenomous colubrid snakes, a northeastern subspecies of a taxon (the common garter snake) that is widely distributed through North America.
    • The other snake I saw was a colubrid which I think was Coluber ventromaculatus.

Origin

Late 19th century: from modern Latin Colubridae (plural), from Latin coluber ‘snake’.

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