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Definition of Elapine
1. a. Like or pertaining to the Elapidæ, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.
Definition of Elapine
1. Adjective. Pertaining to the Elapidae, a taxonomic group including cobras. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elapine
1. pertaining to a family of snakes [adj]
Medical Definition of Elapine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Elapine
Literary usage of Elapine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"With the exception of the Coral Snakes (genus Elaps), the elapine snakes inhabit
... While the elapine snakes occur abundantly in Africa, southern Asia and ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"S^elapine. FIG. 153.—Map showing the distribution of dangerously poisonous ...
Remains of elapine and of innocuous Colubrine snakes have been found in the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In the elapine, still more in the ... one of the Malay genera of elapine snakes,
each poison gland sends an enormously elongated recess far into the ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"They are elapine and poisonous and conceal themselves aided by their leaf-green
color, in bushes where they dart upon birds, lizards, insects, etc., ..."
5. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"... Cameroon. new elapine snakes from the Congo. 44. Descriptions of two Schnee.
285. Schildkröten aus unseren westafrikanischen Kolonien. fg SOUTH AFRICA. ..."
6. Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt (1914)
"... 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 ..."
7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"They feed upon both vegetable- and animal substances. SEA-SNAKE. One of the
poisonous marine snakes of the elapine subfamily ..."
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