/kol"euh brid, -yeuh-/ , n.
1. any of numerous, typically harmless snakes constituting the family Colubridae, having no vestigial limbs, a scale-covered head and body with a mostly bare face, and belly scales usually as wide as the body, including garter snakes, bull snakes, water snakes, racers, vine and tree snakes, and other temperate-to-tropical species, comprising about two-thirds of all living snakes.
adj.
2. belonging or pertaining to the Colubridae.
[ 1885-90; Colubridae name of the family, equiv. to Colubr- (s. of Coluber a genus, L coluber snake) + -idae -ID 2 ]