Resembling or related to elapine snakes, or belonging to the broader group that includes both true elapids and their relatives.
From Greek 'elaps' (snake) combined with '-oid' (resembling or having the form of), commonly used in zoological classification to denote similarity to a primary group.
The '-oid' suffix is a linguist's favorite because it lets scientists describe things that are similar but not identical—so elapoid snakes share key features with elapines but might belong to slightly different branches of the family tree.
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