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Bungarus

noun

kraits

• Syn: ↑genus Bungarus

• Hypernyms: ↑reptile genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Elapidae, ↑family Elapidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑krait

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\\-rəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Telugu baṅgāru, from baṅgāramu gold, from Sanskrit bhṛṅgāra

: a genus of exceedingly venomous Asiatic snakes including the krait and related to the cobra but with shorter fangs and without a dilatable hood

Useful english dictionary. 2012.