English > elapid: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres. |
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| Synonym | elapid snake |
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| Member of | Elapidae, family Elapidae | cobras |
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| Narrower | Australian blacksnake, Pseudechis porphyriacus | large semiaquatic snake of Australia |
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| cobra | venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood |
| copperhead, Denisonia superba | venomous but sluggish / sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia |
| coral snake, harlequin-snake, New World coral snake | Any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white |
| coral snake, Old World coral snake | Any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
| death adder, Acanthophis antarcticus | venomous Australian snake resembling an adder |
| krait | brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula |
| mamba | arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal |
| ringhals, rinkhals, spitting snake, Hemachatus haemachatus | Highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet |
| taipan, Oxyuranus scutellatus | large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia |
| tiger snake, Notechis scutatus | Highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania |
| Broader | snake, serpent, ophidian | limbless scaly elongate reptile |
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| Spanish | elapidae, elápidos, serpiente elápida |
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| Catalan | elapidae, elápidos |
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