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noun
Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: elapid, elapid snake
Narrower terms: banded krait, banded adder, Bungarus fasciatus
History
Borrowed from Hindi करैत (karait), possibly from Kurux, a Dravidian language.
Across languages
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
