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.
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Krait
//kɹaɪt//
Synonyms for "krait" (1 found)
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14 translations across 13 languages.
Assamese
2 entries- গোৱলা সাপ noun (snake)
- শঁকা সাপ noun (snake)
Bengali
1 entries- কেউটে noun (snake)
Bulgarian
1 entries- малайски крайт noun (snake)
Finnish
1 entries- krait noun (snake)
French
1 entries- bongare noun (snake)
Hindi
1 entries- करैत noun (snake)
Italian
1 entries- bungaro noun (snake)
Polish
1 entries- niemrawiec noun (snake)
Russian
1 entries- крайт noun (snake)
Spanish
1 entries- búngaro noun (snake)
Telugu
1 entries- కట్లపాము noun (snake)
Thai
1 entries- ทับทาง noun (snake)
Vietnamese
1 entries- rắn cạp nong noun (snake)
Sample sentences
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Now, if you run into one of these kraits, you better NOT run away else you're a goner. It'll catch you for sure and you will die in your tracks.
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Very much in my thoughts is Joe Slowinski, a herpetologist killed a few years earlier by a misidentified juvenile krait, a snake so small that he couldn't tell if the fang had punctured the skin.
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India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits, cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.
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