coral snake

noun

any of numerous venomous elapid snakes, found chiefly in the New World tropics, as Micrurus fulvius(eastern coral snake ), of the southeastern U.S., often brilliantly marked with bands of red, yellow, and black.
any of several other snakes, as of the genus Calliophis, of Asia, having red markings.

Origin of coral snake

First recorded in 1750–50

Words Nearby coral snake

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How to use coral snake in a sentence

One particularly striking example is the dipsadine snakes, a subfamily with more than 700 species that include hognose snakes and false coral snakes.
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These include coral snakes, rattlers, palm-pitvipers and lanceheads.
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It has 2,800 employees and mostly churns out generic drugs and bulk pharmaceutical ingredients, from birth control injections to coral snake antivenom.
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And, not waiting for the squatter's answer, the monk imitated thrice the hiss of the coral snake.
The Trapper's Daughter | Gustave Aimard
We had no adventures by the way, except the killing of a coral snake which lay in the middle of the road.
In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick Starr

That little coral snake in the pickle bottle was responsible for the death of one Reingelder.
The Librarian at Play | Edmund Lester Pearson
I dell you a coral-snake is a peauty—all red und white like coral dot has been gestrung in bands upon der neck of a girl.
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The coral-snake is much the same in color, and only a close observer would notice the difference.
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British Dictionary definitions for coral snake

coral snake

noun

any venomous elapid snake of the genus Micrurus and related genera, of tropical and subtropical America, marked with red, black, yellow, and white transverse bands
any of various other brightly coloured elapid snakes of Africa and SE Asia

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