Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae, such as the cobras, mambas, and coral snakes, having hollow, fixed fangs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A serpent of the family Elapidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a venomous snake of the family
Elapidae , including the .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology Any of many species of
snakes , of the familyElapidae , including thecobras ,mambas , andcoral snakes - adjective Characteristic of these snakes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Molecular phylogeny of elapid snakes and a consideration of their biogeographic history.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Phylogenetic analysis of the “true” aquatic elapid snakes Hydrophiinae (sensu Smith et al., 1977) indicates two independent radiations into water.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Phylogenetic analysis of the “true” aquatic elapid snakes Hydrophiinae (sensu Smith et al., 1977) indicates two independent radiations into water.
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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Molecular phylogeny of elapid snakes and a consideration of their biogeographic history.
‘A miniature plesiosaur without flippers’: surreal morphologies and surprising behaviours in sea snakes Darren Naish 2006
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The list of neurotoxins is long and varied so that only a few examples are used below to show the range of mechanisms: b-Bungarotoxin (a potent venom of elapid snakes) prevents the release of neurotransmitters
Neurotoxicity 2008
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This ecoregion also forms the main distribution for numerous other reptiles, including many large venomous elapid snakes (Pseudonaja guttata, P. ingrami, and Pseudechis colletti).
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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One terrestrial snake, Ogmodon vitiensis, is an elapid with ancient origins.
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The Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), is an elapid snake and is one of Africa's most dangerous and feared snakes.
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The Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), is an elapid snake and is one of Africa's most dangerous and feared snakes.
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Walterinnesia aegyptia is a species of venomous elapid snake, also known as the Desert Black Snake or Desert Cobra
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knitandpurl commented on the word elapid
""Clive—the junior Clive and not the senior Clive who is presently chopping his way through the Amazon jungle—fears that I will go and tangle myself up with that fugitive elapid. They think I'm daft sometimes, these Pellers. Now I ask you, young man: if I were so precipitant as to go draping myself with poisonous fugitive elapids, would I have survived even half of my ninety-four years? Dear me. Now you are but a boy. Do you know what the word 'precipitant' means?""
Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn, p 153
September 3, 2011