Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae, such as the cobras, mambas, and coral snakes, having hollow, fixed fangs.
[From New Latin Elapidae, family name, from Elaps, former type genus (containing some species now removed from the family), from Late Greek elaps, elap-, variant of Greek elops, elop-, any of various sea fish (including the sturgeon and the sting ray), fish in general, a kind of serpent, variant of earlier Greek ellops, ellop-, an epithet of uncertain meaning used to describe fish.]
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