noun
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: ↑coral snake, ↑harlequin-snake
• Hypernyms: ↑elapid, ↑elapid snake
• Hyponyms: ↑eastern coral snake, ↑Micrurus fulvius, ↑western coral snake, ↑Micruroides euryxanthus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.