from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. a genus of mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A general term for innocuous serpents, as distinguished from Viperina or Thanatophidia.
- More definitely: A suborder of Ophidia, containing all the innocuous serpents with ungrooved and imperforate teeth and dilatable jaws. Also called Colubriformia and Aglyphodontia.
- The Aglyphodontia together with the Proteroglyphia, thus including venomous serpents of the families Elapidæ and Hydrophidæ.
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- n. mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits
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Otherwise, vegetation is short and shrubby, consisting of herbs, grasses, and Ciperaceae, though the native Colubrina glandulosa var. reitzii does still occur on Trindade.
A forest dominated by Colubrina glandulosa var. reitzii covered 85% of Trindade until the mid 1700’s, when settled by 130 families from the Azores.