/kol"euh bruyn', -brin, -yeuh-/ , adj.
1. of or resembling a snake; snakelike.
2. belonging or pertaining to the subfamily Colubrinae, comprising the typical colubrid snakes.
[ 1520-30; colubrinus, equiv. to colubr- (s. of coluber ) snake + -inus -INE 1 ]