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Webster 1913 Edition
Coluber
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Col′u-ber
,Noun.
[L., a serpent.]
(Zool.)
A genus of harmless serpents.
☞ Linnæus placed in this genus all serpents, whether venomous or not, whose scales beneath the tail are arranged in pairs; but by modern writers it is greatly restricted.
Webster 1828 Edition
Coluber
COLUBER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Coluber
Coluber
See also: coluber
Translingual
Proper noun
Coluber m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Colubridae – certain racers and whipsnakes.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Reptilia - class; Eureptilia, Romeriida - clades; Diapsida - subclass; Lepidosauromorpha - infraclass; Lepidosauria - superorder; Squamata - order; Serpentes - suborder; Caenophidia - infraorder; Colubroidea - superfamily; Colubridae - family; Colubrinae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Coluber constrictor (Eastern racer) - type species; for other species see
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coluber
coluber
See also: Coluber
Latin
Noun
coluber m (genitive colubrī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension, nominative singular in -er.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | coluber | colubrī |
| genitive | colubrī | colubrōrum |
| dative | colubrō | colubrīs |
| accusative | colubrum | colubrōs |
| ablative | colubrō | colubrīs |
| vocative | coluber1 | colubrī |
1May also be colubre.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- colubra
- colubrifer
- colubrimodus
- colubrīnus
- colubrōsus
Descendants
References
- coluber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- coluber in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “coluber”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- coluber in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016