colubrid

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

colubrid
    n 1: mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or
         arboreal or aquatic snakes [syn: {colubrid snake},
         {colubrid}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

colubrid \colubrid\ n.
   any member of a large family ({Colubridae}) of mostly
   harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or
   aquatic snakes.

   Syn: colubrid snake.
        [WordNet 1.5]