C — Colonizer to Colugo (Part 6 of 6)

— 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.