Library / English Dictionary

COLUBER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Racers

Synonyms:

Coluber; genus Coluber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Coluber" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Coluber"):

racer (slender fast-moving North American snakes)

Coluber hippocrepis; horseshoe whipsnake (slender fast-moving Eurasian snake)

Holonyms ("Coluber" is a member of...):

Colubridae; family Colubridae (nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species)

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