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Webster 1913 Edition
Krait
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Krait
,Noun.
[Native name.]
(Zool.)
A very venomous snake of India (
Bungarus coeruleus
), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish. Definition 2024
krait
krait
English
A krait
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Noun
krait (plural kraits)
- Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
- 2007, A. Philip Parham, Feeling Free, page 190,
- "Now, if you run into one of these kraits, you better NOT run away else you're a goner. It'll catch you for sure and you will die in your tracks. […] "
- 2009, Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo, page 295,
- Very much in my thoughts is Joe Slowinski, a herpetologist killed a few years earlier by a misidentified juvenile krait, a snake so small that he couldn't tell if the fang had punctured the skin.
- 2011, Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions, page 71,
- India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits, cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.
- 2007, A. Philip Parham, Feeling Free, page 190,