CORAL SNAKE


Meaning of CORAL SNAKE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: circa 1772

1. : any of several venomous chiefly tropical New World elapid snakes (genus Micrurus ) brilliantly banded in red, black, and yellow or white that include two ( M. fulvius and M. euryxanthus ) ranging northward into the southern United States

2. : any of several harmless snakes resembling the coral snakes

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