Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun coral_snake

2 senses of coral snake

Sense 1
coral snake, Old World coral snake -- (any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia)
       => elapid, elapid snake -- (any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres)

Sense 2
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)
       => elapid, elapid snake -- (any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres)