cobra
/ˈkoʊbɹə/ noun B1- Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
- A ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).
- A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
- A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).
- A shield-nosed cobra/coral cobra (genus Aspidelaps).
- A black desert cobra (genus Walterinnesia).
- An American cobra (Micrurus fulvius).
- A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.
Plural cobras
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He will crush our young,” said the cobras inside.
When the cobra runs for her life, she goes like a whip-lash flicked across a horse’s neck.
Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.
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