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HARLEQUIN-SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harlequin-snake mean? 

HARLEQUIN-SNAKE (noun)
  The noun HARLEQUIN-SNAKE has 1 sense:

1. 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 Americaplay

  Familiarity information: HARLEQUIN-SNAKE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HARLEQUIN-SNAKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

coral snake; harlequin-snake; New World coral snake

Hypernyms ("harlequin-snake" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "harlequin-snake"):

eastern coral snake; Micrurus fulvius (ranges from Central America to southeastern United States)

Micruroides euryxanthus; western coral snake (ranges from Central America to southwestern United States)


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