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▪ I. colubrine, a. and n.1|ˈkɒljʊbraɪn|
[ad. L. colubrīn-us like a snake, cunning, f. colubr(i)-snake. Cf. F. colubrin.]
A. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a snake or serpent; snake-like.
a1528Skelton Image Ipocr. Wks. II. 290 His county pallantyne Have coustome colubryne With code viperyne, And sectes serpentyne. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Colubrine, of or belonging to a Serpent; also wily, crafty. 1883P. Robinson in Harper's Mag. Oct. 708/1 The colubrine impossibility of springing off the ground at me.
2. Zool. Of the nature of the Coluber or snake: applied to serpents, sometimes distinguished as true colubrine and venomous colubrine snakes.
1844–58Günther (title), Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes, Lizards, etc., in the British Museum. 1860Dallas Nat. Hist. Animal Kingd. 382 The fangs of the Colubrine Snakes..are always immoveably fixed in the mouth. 1871T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) V. 939 The Colubrine Snakes..differ in several important particulars from the Viperina. 1887Günther in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 193 Venomous Colubrine snakes.
B. n.
1. A colubrine snake. [So F. colubrin.]
†2. Min. A talcose mineral. Obs.
1771Hill Fossils 28 Talc, Genus vi. Colubrine. Composed of small, flat, thick, even and close-connected Flakes. Ibid. 30 All the Colubrines cut easily, but will take no polish.
▪ II. † ˈcolubrine, n.2 Obs. rare—1
[ad. med.L. (also It.) colubrina, deriv. of colubra snake: see culverin.]
A culverin.
1605Camden Rem. (1657) 208 Culverines or colubrines. |