ELAPID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elapid mean? 

• ELAPID (noun)
  The noun ELAPID has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres

  Familiarity information: ELAPID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELAPID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

elapid; elapid snake

Hypernyms ("elapid" is a kind of...):

ophidian; serpent; snake (limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elapid"):

coral snake; harlequin-snake; New World 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)

coral snake; Old World coral snake (any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia)

copperhead; Denisonia superba (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)

Oxyuranus scutellatus; taipan (large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia)

Holonyms ("elapid" is a member of...):

Elapidae; family Elapidae (cobras; kraits; mambas; coral snakes; Australian taipan and tiger snakes)

 Context examples 

Elapids belong to a larger group of snakes known as colubrids—active foragers that use a variety of methods, including venom to capture and kill prey.

(Researchers find oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes, NSF)

These findings demonstrate that elapid snakes, such as cobras, kraits and sea snakes—were present in Africa as early as 25 million years ago.

(Researchers find oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes, NSF)