Colt"ish*ly, adv. Colt"ish*ness, n.
Coltsfoot (Colts"foot`) n. (Bot.) A perennial herb whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed
in medicine.
Butterbur coltsfoot (Bot.), a European plant
Colt's tooth (Colt's" tooth`) See under Colt.
Coluber (||Col"u*ber) n. [L., a serpent.] (Zoöl.) A genus of harmless serpents.
Linnæus placed in this genus all serpents, whether venomous or not, whose scales beneath the tail are
arranged in pairs; but by modern writers it is greatly restricted.
Colubrine (Col"u*brine) a. [L. colubrinus.]
1. (Zoöl.) like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.
2. Like a snake; cunning; crafty. Johnson.
Colugo (||Co*lu"go) n. [Prob. an aboriginal name.] (Zoöl.) A peculiar East Indian mammal having along
the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to
make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; called also flying lemur.
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