adder vs colubrine

adder

noun
  • A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera 

  • Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen, the northern copperhead, a venomous viper found in the eastern United States 

  • Lampropeltis triangulum (milk snake). 

  • The puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis). 

  • Heterodon spp. (hog-nosed snakes), a genus of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America 

  • The common European adder (Vipera berus). 

  • Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers. 

  • Acanthophis spp. (death adders), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia 

  • A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia). 

  • An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies. 

  • Something which adds or increases. 

colubrine

noun
  • Any snake of the subfamily Colubrinae 

adj
  • Snakelike. 

  • Relating to snakes. 

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