Crossword-Solution: ELAPS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Elaps | n. | A genus of venomous snakes found both in America and the Old World. Many species are known. See Coral snake, under Coral. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ELAPS | anagram | ALPES, LAPSE, LEAPS, PALES, PEALS, PELAS, PLEAS, SALEP, SEPAL, SPALE |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ELAPS”
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| Garter snake genus. | 1 answer |
| SOUTH African garter snake | 1 answer |
| Venomous garter snake genus. | 1 answer |
| Venomous-snake genus | 1 answer |
| snake South African | 1 answer |
| Snake genus | 2 answers |
| South African snake | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ELAPS (5)
The first genus is the Crotalus, or rattlesnake proper; the second is the Caudisona, or ground-rattlesnake; the third is the Ancistrodon, or moccasin, one of the species of which is a water-snake; and the fourth is the Elaps, or harlequin snake.
One of these, Elaps, is venomous; a second and widely-distinct genus is doubtfully venomous, and the two others are quite harmless.
The cause, however, of the bright colours of the venomous Elaps remains to be explained, and this may perhaps be sexual selection.
Here as I take my solitary rounds, Amidst thy tangling walks, and ruin’d grounds, And, many a year elaps’d, return to view Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, 80 Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
And as the half hour to which he was limited had now elaps'd, she took him by the hand and led him to the gate, to set forth on his return.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1952–1991).