OLD WORLD CORAL SNAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Old World coral snake mean? 

• OLD WORLD CORAL SNAKE (noun)
  The noun OLD WORLD CORAL SNAKE has 1 sense:

1. any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia

  Familiarity information: OLD WORLD CORAL SNAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD WORLD CORAL SNAKE (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

coral snake; Old World coral snake

Hypernyms ("Old World coral 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 "Old World coral snake"):

Asian coral snake (of India)

African coral snake; Aspidelaps lubricus (small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange)

Australian coral snake; Rhynchoelaps australis (small venomous but harmless snake marked with black-and-white on red)