ELAPID

• ELAPID (noun)
  The noun ELAPID has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres

  Familiarity information: ELAPID used as a noun is very rare.

• ELAPID (noun)

Meaning:

Any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

elapid; elapid snake

Hypernyms ("elapid" is a kind of...):

ophidian; serpent; snake (limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elapid"):

Oxyuranus scutellatus; taipan (large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia)

krait (brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula)

Australian blacksnake; Pseudechis porphyriacus (large semiaquatic snake of Australia; black above with red belly)

Notechis scutatus; tiger snake (highly venomous brown-and-yellow snake of Australia and Tasmania)

Acanthophis antarcticus; death adder (venomous Australian snake resembling an adder)

mamba (arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal)

Hemachatus haemachatus; ringhals; rinkhals; spitting snake (highly venomous snake of southern Africa able to spit venom up to seven feet)

cobra (venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood)

copperhead; Denisonia superba (venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia)

coral snake; Old World coral snake (any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and 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; widely distributed in South America and Central America)

Holonyms ("elapid" is a member of...):

Elapidae; family Elapidae (cobras; kraits; mambas; coral snakes; Australian taipan and tiger snakes)