coral snake

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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.

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Origin of coral snake

First recorded in 1750–50

Words nearby coral snake

coral pink, coral plant, coral reef, coralroot, Coral Sea, coral snake, Coral Springs, coral tree, coral trout, coral vine, coram judice

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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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Cason is now retired from the Foreign Service and is the mayor of Coral Gables, Florida.
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For these Arabs, Iran is the raised (and loaded) head of the snake.
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The black mamba snake slithering towards Lakshmi is highly venomous.
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Here the snake oil quotient is a bit more evident than in the skybox seats occupied by insights made using hard science.
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Which of these foods have science to back them up, and which are nothing but snake oil?
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He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.
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On his loins was a lion of great fierceness, and coiled round his waist was a hissing mamba (snake).
Uncanny Tales|Various
The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
So they bore Spotted Snake away with them in the canoe, while the Dogtown gang shrieked farewells from the old landing.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
Between these two ranges of islands we only obtained one cast of the lead which gave us thirty-three fathoms on a coral bottom.
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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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