Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 
 any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; 
 widely distributed in South America and Central America; 
[syn: coral snake, harlequin-snake, New World coral snake]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
harlequin-snake
    n 1: any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded
         in red and black and either yellow or white; widely
         distributed in South America and Central America [syn:
         coral snake, harlequin-snake, New World coral snake]