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coral snake

noun \ˈkr-əl-, ˈkär-\

Medical Definition of CORAL SNAKE

:  any of several venomous chiefly tropical New World elapid snakes of the genus Micrurus that are brilliantly banded in red, black, and yellow or white and include two (M. fulvius and M. euryxanthus) ranging northward into the southern United States

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