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Definition of: colubrine
(kol′yə·brīn, -brin) adjective
1. Of, pertaining to, or like a snake.
2. Of or pertaining to a widely distributed family of snakes (Colubridae); especially to the subfamily Colubrinae, which includes the typically nonvenomous snakes, as the garter snake, blacksnake, etc. [<L colubrinus <coluber snake]
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