coral snake

Noun

Meaning

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

any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

python anaconda cobra asp moccasin mamba serpent adder boa krait king snake boa constrictor king cobra rat snake milk snake
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Hypernyms

reptile elapid elapid snake

Hyponyms

Micruroides euryxanthus Micrurus fulvius eastern coral snake African coral snake Aspidelaps lubricus Australian coral snake

Examples

Another way of remembering the color sequence of the coral snake (again, except on Key Largo) is to remember that like a traffic signal where the two caution colors, red and yellow, are next to each other, the two caution colors touch on the coral snake. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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