Feminine
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culebra

  1. (feminine) snake, serpent (legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes)
  2. (feminine, specifically) (colubrid) snake (snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous)
  3. (feminine, specifically) a small snake

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
cu‧le‧bra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kuˈlebɾa/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish culuebra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra. Cognate with Portuguese cobra.

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