krait

English

A krait

Alternative forms

• karait

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi करैत (karait).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪt/

Noun

krait (plural kraits)

1. Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
   • 1871 December, Dr. J. Ewart, “How the bite of snakes―supposed to be poisonous―may be cured”, in The Australian Medical Gazette:

     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.

   • 2007, A. Philip Parham, Feeling Free‎^[1], page 190]:

     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.

   • 2009, Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo‎^[2], page 295:

     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.

   • 2011, Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions‎^[3], page 71:

     India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits, cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.

Derived terms

• banded krait ()
• many-banded krait ()
• sea krait ( spp.)

Translations

snake

• Bengali: কেউটে (keuţe)
• Bulgarian: малайски крайт m (malajski krajt)
• Finnish: krait
• French: bongare (fr) m
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: bungaro m
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• Russian: крайт (ru) m (krajt)
• Spanish: búngaro m
• Telugu: కట్లపాము (te) (kaṭlapāmu)
• Vietnamese: rắn cạp nong (vi)

Anagrams

• IARTK, iktar, kirat, takir