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COBRA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cobra" is a kind of...):

elapid; elapid snake (any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cobra"):

Indian cobra; Naja naja (a cobra of tropical Africa and Asia)

asp; Egyptian cobra; Naja haje (cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death)

black-necked cobra; Naja nigricollis; spitting cobra (aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa; rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness)

hamadryad; king cobra; Naja hannah; Ophiophagus hannah (large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja)

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