An Acceptable Time — Infobox Book name = An Acceptable Time title orig = translator = image caption = An Acceptable Time first edition author = Madeleine L Engle illustrator = cover artist = Charles Mikolaycak (hardback) country = United States language = English… … Wikipedia
couleuvre — [ kulɶvr ] n. f. • fin XIIe; lat. pop. °colobra, class. colubra 1 ♦ Serpent non venimeux (colubridés) dont les nombreuses espèces sont répandues dans le monde entier. ⇒ nasique. Couleuvre à collier ou serpent d eau. Couleuvre vipérine. Couleuvre… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Major characters in the works of Madeleine L'Engle — Madeleine L Engle, an American novelist, diarist and poet, produced over twenty novels, beginning with The Small Rain (1945), and continuing into the 1990s with A Live Coal in the Sea (1996).[1] Many of her fictional characters appeared in more… … Wikipedia
culebra — (Del lat. colubra.) ► sustantivo femenino 1 ZOOLOGÍA Reptil ofidio de cuerpo cilíndrico y largo, cabeza aplastada, piel escamosa y con diversos colores, que puede vivir en la tierra o en el agua. 2 TECNOLOGÍA Tubo largo en espiral de los… … Enciclopedia Universal
Kobra — Viper; Otter; Brillenschlange * * * Ko|bra auch: Kob|ra 〈f. 10; Zool.〉 bis ,8 m lange Hutschlange mit Brillenzeichnung auf dem Nacken, gefährlichste Giftschlange Indiens: Naja naja [verkürzt <port. cobra de capello „Kappenschlange“; zu lat.… … Universal-Lexikon
colubrin — ⇒COLUBRIN, INE, adj. et subst. fém. I. Adj. ,,Qui appartient à la couleuvre (Ac. 1932) ou qui rappelle la couleuvre par son apparence. Rem. On rencontre en ce sens ds la docum. l adj. couleuvrin, ine. Le bouton à tête plate, couleuvrine, comme… … Encyclopédie Universelle
colúbrido — (Derivado de culebra.) ► adjetivo/ sustantivo masculino ZOOLOGÍA Perteneciente a una familia de serpientes, unas inocuas y otras venenosas. * * * colúbrido, a (del lat. «colubra», culebra) adj. y n. m. Zool. Se aplica a los reptiles ofidios… … Enciclopedia Universal
Culverin — Cul ver*in (k?l v?r ?n), n. [F. coulevrine, prop. fem. of couleuvrin like a serpent, fr. couleuvre adder, fr. L. coluber, colubra.] A long cannon of the 16th century, usually an 18 pounder with serpent shaped handles. [1913 Webster] Trump, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cobra — noun Etymology: Portuguese cobra (de capello), literally, hooded snake, from Latin colubra snake Date: 1802 any of several venomous Asian and African elapid snakes (genera Naja and Ophiophagus) that when excited expand the skin of the neck into a … New Collegiate Dictionary
colubrid — noun Etymology: ultimately from Latin colubra snake Date: 1887 any of a large cosmopolitan family (Colubridae) of chiefly nonvenomous snakes • colubrid adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
culverin — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French couleuvrine, from couleuvre snake, from Latin colubra Date: 15th century an early firearm: a. a rude musket b. a long cannon (as an 18 pounder) of the 16th and 17th centuries … New Collegiate Dictionary
