krait
/kɹaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits, cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: करैत, -
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /kɹaɪt/
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Andaman krait
banded krait
blue krait
Burmese krait
common krait
greater black krait
Indian krait
lesser black krait