krait vs elapid

krait and elapid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
krait	Yes	No	No	No
elapid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, elapid is a hypernym of krait; that is, elapid is a word with a broader meaning than krait:

krait: brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula
elapid: any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres

Other hypernyms of krait include elapid snake.

krait (noun)	elapid (noun)
brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula	any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres