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elapid snake - any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres | ||
elapid | ||
ophidian, serpent, snake an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake | ||
elapidae, family elapidae cobras; kraits; mambas; coral snakes; Australian taipan and tiger snakes | ||
harlequin-snake, new world coral snake, 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 | ||
old world coral snake, 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 | ||
denisonia superba, copperhead 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 |