coral snake

coral snake

noun

Definition of CORAL SNAKE

1

: any of several venomous chiefly tropical New World elapid snakes (genus Micrurus) brilliantly banded in red, black, and yellow or white that include two (M. fulvius and M. euryxanthus) ranging northward into the southern United States

2

: any of several harmless snakes resembling the coral snakes

First Known Use of CORAL SNAKE

circa 1772

Rhymes with CORAL SNAKE

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