noun
any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres
• Syn: ↑elapid snake
• Hyponyms:
↑coral snake, ↑harlequin-snake, ↑New World coral snake, ↑Old World coral snake, ↑copperhead, ↑Denisonia superba, ↑cobra, ↑ringhals, ↑rinkhals, ↑spitting snake, ↑Hemachatus haemachatus, ↑mamba, ↑death adder, ↑Acanthophis antarcticus, ↑tiger snake, ↑Notechis scutatus, ↑Australian blacksnake, ↑Pseudechis porphyriacus, ↑krait, ↑taipan, ↑Oxyuranus scutellatus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Elapidae, ↑family Elapidae
Useful english dictionary. 2012.