coral snake

Questions about coral snake

What does coral snake mean?

coral snake means "any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for coral snake?

Close synonyms include Old World coral snake, harlequin-snake, New World coral snake. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coral snake a common word?

coral snake is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.