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colubrine

/ˈkɒljəˌbɹaɪn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
col-u-brine
IPA
/ˈkɒljəˌbɹaɪn/
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Snakelike.

adj

Relating to snakes.

noun

Any snake of the subfamily Colubrinae

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Latin colubrinus, from colubra (“snake”) + -inus (“-ine”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more colubrine (comparative) most colubrine (superlative) colubrines (plural)

Phrases

colubrine sea krait

Questions

How do you pronounce colubrine?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɒljəˌbɹaɪn/.
What does colubrine mean?
Snakelike.
Where does colubrine come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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