elapid

1. 1.

   any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres

   Synonymselapid snake

   Broadersnake

   Narrowercoral snakecopperheadcobraringhalsmambadeath addertiger snakeAustralian blacksnakekraittaipan

   Part ofElapidae

Other forms of elapid

plural

elapids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about elapid

What does elapid mean?

elapid means "any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres".

How many syllables are in elapid?

elapid has 3 syllables: e-la-pid. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for elapid?

Close synonyms include elapid 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 elapid a common word?

elapid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.