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Zoology. Of the nature of the Coluber or snake: applied to serpents, sometimes distinguished as true colubrine and venomous colubrine snakes.
Having the form of a coluber; applied to certain venomous snakes, such as the Elapidæ and Hydrophidæ (sea snakes).