kraitn.
/krʌɪt/, U.S. /kraɪt/ East India.
A venomous snake of the genus Bungarus, esp. B. cæruleus, common in Bengal.
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1874 Fayrer Venom. Snakes Ind. Penins. (ed. 2) 14 After a night's dâk in a palanquin, a lady..found a Krait coiled up under her pillow.
1880 Daily Tel. 18 Nov. 5/3 His charm against ‘the black snake’ and the ‘korait’.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 196/2 The krait is probably, next to the cobra, the most destructive snake to human life in India.
1898 Pall Mall Mag. Christm. No. 583 The snake..was a fine specimen of the karait.
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