noun
1. any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia
• Syn: ↑Old World coral snake
• Hypernyms: ↑elapid, ↑elapid snake
• Hyponyms: ↑Asian coral snake, ↑African coral snake, ↑Aspidelaps lubricus, ↑Australian coral snake, ↑Rhynchoelaps australis
2. 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
• Syn: ↑harlequin-snake, ↑New World coral snake
• Hypernyms: ↑elapid, ↑elapid snake
• Hyponyms: ↑eastern coral snake, ↑Micrurus fulvius, ↑western coral snake, ↑Micruroides euryxanthus
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a brightly coloured poisonous snake, often with bands of red, yellow, white and black
Useful english dictionary. 2012.