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English noun: elapid

1. elapid (animal) any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres


Synonymselapid snake


Broader (hypernym)ophidian, serpent, snake


Narrower (hyponym)Acanthophis antarcticus, Australian blacksnake, cobra, copperhead, coral snake, coral snake, death adder, Denisonia superba, harlequin-snake, Hemachatus haemachatus, krait, mamba, New World coral snake, Notechis scutatus, Old World coral snake, Oxyuranus scutellatus, Pseudechis porphyriacus, ringhals, rinkhals, spitting snake, taipan, tiger snake


Member meronymElapidae, family Elapidae









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