krait
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
/kɹaɪt/(UK)
Definition of krait
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
“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.”
“India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits, cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi करैत (karait), possibly from Kurux, a Dravidian language.
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