English > colubrid snake: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial / terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes. |
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| Synonym | colubrid |
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| Member of | Colubridae, family Colubridae | nonvenomous snakes |
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| Narrower | black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake |
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| bull snake, bull-snake | Any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
| eastern ground snake, Potamophis striatula, Haldea striatula | In some classifications placed in genus Haldea |
| garter snake, grass snake | Any of numerous nonvenomous longitudinally-striped viviparous North American and Central American snakes |
| glossy snake, Arizona elegans | nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales |
| green snake, grass snake | Either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
| green snake | Any of numerous African colubrid snakes |
| ground snake, Sonora semiannulata | small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial / terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America |
| hognose snake, puff adder, sand viper | harmless North American snake with upturned nose |
| hoop snake | Any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop |
| indigo snake, gopher snake, Drymarchon corais | large dark-blue nonvenomous snake that invades burrows |
| king snake, kingsnake | Any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors |
| leaf-nosed snake | Any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America |
| lined snake, Tropidoclonion lineatum | secretive snake of city dumps and parks as well as prairies and open woods |
| lyre snake | mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head |
| night snake, Hypsiglena torquata | nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico |
| racer | slender fast-moving North American snakes |
| rat snake | Any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia |
| red-bellied snake, Storeria occipitamaculata | harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States |
| ringneck snake, ring-necked snake, ring snake | Any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
| sand snake | small North American burrowing snake |
| thunder snake, worm snake, Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
| vine snake | slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia |
| water snake | Any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water |
| whip-snake, whip snake, whipsnake | Any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails |
| Broader | snake, serpent, ophidian | limbless scaly elongate reptile |
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| Spanish | bicha, colubridae, colúbrido, culebra |
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| Catalan | colubridae, colúbrid |
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