There are also: serpentine, colubrine (if it's a cobra-like snake, can't apply to a constricter, say, or a sidewinder ...), anguine. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
The doctor first put on the table a non-poisonous but very vicious and truculent colubrine snake. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Most of the colubrine snakes are entirely harmless, and are the common snakes that we meet everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Doctor Brazil informed me that the mussurama, like the king-snake, was not immune to the colubrine poison. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
In the southern portion of our country there are two species of a colubrine genus closely related to the dreaded cobra of the. From Wordnik.com. [Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene] Reference
As yet the doctor has not been able to develop an anti-venom serum which will neutralize the poison of these colubrine snakes. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The bite of a cobra or other colubrine poisonous snake is more painful in its immediate effects than is the bite of one of the big vipers. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
But the vital difference is that between all these poisons of the pit-vipers and the poisons of the colubrine snakes, such as the cobra and the coral-snake. From Wordnik.com. [I. The Start] Reference
But the vital difference is that between all these poisons of the pit - vipers and the poisons of the colubrine snakes, such as the cobra and the coral-snake. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
It looked to me like a coronelia -- harmless colubrine snakes -- but was more than twice as large as either of the two species of that genus I was already familiar with. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
But the effect of the venom of the poisonous colubrine snakes is totally different from, although to the full as deadly as, the effect of the poison of the rattlesnake or jararaca. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Poisonous snakes are of several different families, but the most poisonous ones, those which are dangerous to man, belong to the two great families of the colubrine snakes and the vipers. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
The only poisonous colubrine snakes in the New World are the ring-snakes, the coral-snakes of the genus elaps, which are found from the extreme southern United States southward to the Argentine. From Wordnik.com. [I. The Start] Reference
The only poisonous colubrine snakes in the New World are the ring - snakes, the coral-snakes of the genus elaps, which are found from the extreme southern United States southward to the Argentine. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Unlike the vipers, the colubrine poisonous snakes have small fangs, and their poison, though on the whole even more deadly, has entirely different effects, and owes its deadliness to entirely different qualities. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference
Boomslang, an innocuous colubrine snake. From Wordnik.com. [Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories] Reference
Ine adjectives that pertain to, resemble or are characteristic of an animal: accipitrine ` hawklike 'leonine ` lionlike' anguine ` snakelike 'lupine ` wolflike' anserine ` gooselike 'lutrine ` otterlike' aquiline ` eaglelike 'murine ` mouselike' asinine ` asslike 'oscine ` songbirdlike' bovine ` cowlike 'ovine ` sheeplike' canine ` doglike 'passerine ` perching - caprine ` goatlike' songbirdlike 'cervine ` deerlike' pavonine ` peacocklike 'colubrine ` kingsnakelike' piscine ` fishlike 'or ` gartersnakelike' porcine ` piglike or elephantine ` elephantlike '` swinelike' equine ` horselike 'ranine ` froglike' feline ` catlike 'serpentine ` serpentlike' herpestine ` mongooselike 'suilline ` hoglike' hircine ` goatlike, 'especially suine ` swinelike' in strong odor taurine ` bull-like 'or lustfulness ursine ` bearlike' lacertine or lacertilian viperine ` viperlike '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3] Reference
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