Definitions
brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula
Word origin
Borrowed from Hindi करैत (karait), possibly from Kurux, a Dravidian language.
Used in a sentence
“On visiting the General Hospital, on the morning of the 22nd of August, I was informed that one of the punkah coolies had been bitten about 8.30 p.m., the night before, by a krait, whose venom is virulently poisonous.”
“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.”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Banded venomous snake”5 letters
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