Colubrid Snake (Noun)
Meaning
Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The garter snake is a common colubrid snake found in North America that inhabits aquatic environments.
- A typical colubrid snake, the gopher snake, is known for its adaptability in temperate regions.
- In Southeast Asia, the keeled box turtle often shares its habitat with a colubrid snake, such as the paradise tree snake.
- Most colubrid snakes are non-venomous and feed on small animals, including lizards and rodents.
- A few species of colubrid snakes have specialized heat-sensing organs that aid them in hunting warm-blooded prey.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Worm Snake
- Carphophis Amoenus
- Puff Adder
- Drymarchon Corais
- Ring Snake
- Bull-snake
- Hypsiglena Torquata
- Arizona Elegans
- Gopher Snake
- Sand Viper
- Haldea Striatula
- Kingsnake
- Whipsnake
- Tropidoclonion Lineatum
- Whip Snake
- Ring-necked Snake
- Sonora Semiannulata
- Potamophis Striatula
- Grass Snake
- Storeria Occipitamaculata