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n. (coral snake English)
Usage examples of "coral snakes".
Then movement at the threshold drew my eye, and I saw the red-and-black-mottled tendrils of a ground-hugging vine, as beautiful and evil-looking as a nest of baby coral snakes, questing at the sill of the door, growing as fast as plants in a nature film run at high speed, wriggling into the cab.
Did he know that deadly coral snakes have such small jaws that you practically have to stick your pinkie right in their faces and insult them before they'll bite you?
Fourteen now--mambas, black and green, slippery coral snakes, pygmy rattlers.
He did so, hoping there were no coral snakes or cottonmouths lurking under the surface of the water as he waded into it and stepped up into the pirogue.
You see, our snake charmer has a bunch of cobras and coral snakes, and I'm kind of concerned about their welfare.
In the story that now came to Enoch' s mind, the first installment of the serial had ended with the mightily thewed hero trapped at the bottom of a very deep pit floored with poison-tipped stakes as a horde of coral snakes slithered toward him, brackish water was pumped into the pit and was rising rapidly, his left arm was broken, he was without weapon, and a man-eating Sumatran black panther peered over the lip of the pit, watching him closely.
In the story that now came to Enoch s mind, the first installment of the serial had ended with the mightily thewed hero trapped at the bottom of a very deep pit floored with poison-tipped stakes as a horde of coral snakes slithered toward him, brackish water was pumped into the pit and was rising rapidly, his left arm was broken, he was without weapon, and a man-eating Sumatran black panther peered over the lip of the pit, watching him closely.
He would have seen nothing untoward if they'd all had live coral snakes for neckties.
He's picked up poisonous coral snakes in Florida and planted them in Southern California.
And the coral snakes and water moccasins in the Everglades are harmless little pets alongside some of the things here.
They varied in size from vines that were no larger than coral snakes, to amorphous bulks with a hundred squirming tentacles, huge as the kraken of mythology.