Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun harlequin-snake
1 sense of harlequin-snake
Sense 1
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)