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ELAPID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres
Synonyms:
elapid; elapid snake
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("elapid" is a kind of...):
ophidian; serpent; snake (limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elapid"):
coral snake; harlequin-snake; New World coral snake (any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South America and Central America)
coral snake; Old World coral snake (any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia)
copperhead; Denisonia superba (venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia)
cobra (venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood)
Hemachatus haemachatus; ringhals; rinkhals; spitting snake (highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet)
mamba (arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal)
Acanthophis antarcticus; death adder (venomous Australian snake resembling an adder)
Notechis scutatus; tiger snake (highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania)
Australian blacksnake; Pseudechis porphyriacus (large semiaquatic snake of Australia; black above with red belly)
krait (brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula)
Oxyuranus scutellatus; taipan (large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia)
Holonyms ("elapid" is a member of...):
Elapidae; family Elapidae (cobras; kraits; mambas; coral snakes; Australian taipan and tiger snakes)
