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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 America
Familiarity information: HARLEQUIN-SNAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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