Elapine

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pertaining to the Elapidae, a taxonomic group including cobras.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Like or pertaining to the Elapidæ, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See ophidia.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating to the snakes of the genus Elaps and their relatives, usually considered as forming the family Elapidæ.
  • n. A poisonous constituent of snake-poison.
  • Word Usage
    "There is a greater effect on the nerve-centres, but less swelling of the wound itself, and, whereas the blood of the rattlesnake’s victim coagulates, the blood of the victim of an elapine snake—that is, of one of the only poisonous American colubrines—becomes watery and incapable of coagulation."
    Variant
    Ophidia