Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several highly venomous snakes of the genus Bungarus of southeast Asia and adjacent islands, having a generally black body with brightly colored bands.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small snake, Bungarus cæruleus or B. candidus, extremely venomous, and common throughout the greater part of the Indian subregion. It is all the more dangerous on account of its small size, and is believed to be responsible for a large share of the 20,000 deaths caused by wild animals that occur annually in India.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus cœruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula
Etymologies
- From Hindi करैत (krait). (Wiktionary)
- Hindi karait, perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit kāla-, black; see Kali. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The next cell held three krait—creatures with reptilian heads and human torsos and serpent abdomens.”
“At sight of the group, the krait raised their neck frills and hissed angrily.”
“Divided into sections (the Americas, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe), it provides natural history images painstakingly rendered by artists over centuries, which depict new forms of flora and fauna that the European world was just discovering - from the banded krait (a snake) to the white-tailed gnu.”
“There, a white man, Harry Pope, lies in bed, sweating with fear because he believes a krait, a venomous nocturnal snake, has slithered under the sheets and curled up on his stomach.”
“Some 19 species of snake occur in the park including king cobra Ophiophagus hannah, green pit viper Trimeresurus albolabris, common krait Bungarus caeruleus and Indian python Python molurus (V).”
“Reptiles include water snakes, Indian python Python molurus (V), banded krait Bungarus fasciatus, green rat snake Zaocys nigromarginatus, turtles (Lissemys punctatus, Trionyx gangeticus, Kachuga tectum and Hardella thurgi) and monitor lizard Varanus sp.”
“Lake Tegano is the only known location for the endemic sea krait Laticauda crockeri (VU).”
“Poisonous snakes include the banded-coral snake Maticora intestinalis, the red headed krait, Bungarus flaviceps and the white-spotted cat snake Boigo drapiezii.”
“The status and natural history of the Rennell Island sea krait, Laticauda crockeri (Serpentes: Laticauda).”
“The Black-banded sea krait L. laticaudata (Linnaeus, 1758) is a large (1.1 m long), wide-ranging species.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘krait’.
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stripes and bands
variegated armadillos and other asundry bands and stripes
fajada, raye, apar, fasciated, hemigalus, numbat, onyx, tatouay, tortrix, coquina, peba, myrmecobius and 113 more...
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Snakes
python, adder, snake, asp, cobra, bull snake, copperhead, sea snake, viper, boa, cottonmouth, rattlesnake and 15 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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It's a Snake
Snakes.
araramboya, opisthoglyphous, proteroglyphous, solenoglyphous, centipede-eater, boitatá, matatoro, huille, boine, boomslang, Calamaria, racer and 60 more...
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Orphanage of neglected words, starved...
The words on this list need to get out more. Seriously, I can't believe I'm the only person listing them. Won't you please consider offering them a playdate with some of your words? Surely you have...
grog blossom, hellspawn, hellespont, embryology, hamfisted, topkapi, footling, fancier, lindisfarne, krispy kreme, mortal coil, byline and 29 more...
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