BOIGIDAE


Meaning of BOIGIDAE in English

bōˈijə̇ˌdē noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Boiga, type genus + -idae

: a widely distributed family (type genus Boiga ) consisting of somewhat venomous opisthoglyph snakes of which a few (as the African boomslang) are dangerous to man and being sometimes considered a subfamily of Colubridae — see cat snake

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