Krait

//kɹaɪt// noun

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Definitions

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

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snake

Example

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"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."

Etymology

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

Related phrases

Andaman kraitBurmese kraitIndian kraitRed River kraitSind kraitSri Lankan kraitSuzhen's kraitbanded kraitblue kraitcommon kraitgreater black kraitlesser black krait

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