krait/kɹaɪt/EtymologyBorrowed from Hindi करैत (karait), possibly from Kurux, a Dravidian language.nounAny of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus, of southeast Asia.“On visiting the General Hospital, on the morning of the 22nd of August, I was informed that one of the punkah coolies had been bitten about 8.30 p.m., the night before, by a krait, whose venom is virulently poisonous.”