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Definition of Coluber
1. Noun. Racers.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Colubridae, Family Colubridae
Member holonyms: Racer, Coluber Hippocrepis, Horseshoe Whipsnake
Definition of Coluber
1. n. A genus of harmless serpents.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coluber
Literary usage of Coluber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1919)
"These he called coluber catenifer and coluber vertebralis. In 1842, Holbrook
established the genus Pituophis for the eastern bull- snake, which Daudin had ..."
2. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"IN THE United States the genus coluber is represented by five species and several
distinct varieties of large and richly coloured snakes. ..."
3. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"The name coluber was instituted by Linnaeus in 1758 for the great majority of
snakes and the "genus" so designated embraced poisonous as well as ..."
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