ELAPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Elapidae mean? 

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

1. cobras; kraits; mambas; coral snakes; Australian taipan and tiger snakes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELAPIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cobras; kraits; mambas; coral snakes; Australian taipan and tiger snakes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Elapidae; family Elapidae

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

reptile family (a family of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Elapidae"):

genus Naja; Naja (cobras)

genus Oxyuranus; Oxyuranus (taipans)

Bungarus; genus Bungarus (kraits)

genus Pseudechis; Pseudechis (venomous Australian blacksnakes)

genus Notechis; Notechis (tiger snakes)

Acanthophis; genus Acanthophis (Australian elapid snakes)

Dendraspis; Dendroaspis; genus Dendraspis; genus Dendroaspis (mambas)

genus Hemachatus; Hemachatus (ringhals)

genus Ophiophagus; Ophiophagus (king cobra)

Denisonia; genus Denisonia (copperheads)

genus Rhynchoelaps; Rhynchoelaps (Australian coral snakes)

Aspidelaps; genus Aspidelaps (African coral snakes)

Calliophis; Callophis; genus Calliophis; genus Callophis (Asian coral snakes)

genus Micruroides; Micruroides; genus Micrurus; Micrurus (coral snakes)

elapid; elapid snake (any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres)

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

Ophidia; Serpentes; suborder Ophidia; suborder Serpentes (snakes)