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Krait

//kɹaɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.

    "On visiting the General Hospital, on the morning of the 22nd of August, I was informed that one of the punkah coolies had been bitten about 8.30 p.m., the night before, by a krait, whose venom is virulently poisonous."

  2. 2
    brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi करैत (karait), possibly from Kurukh.

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