cobras

Noun

cobra (plural cobras)

1. Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
   • In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
2. A ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).
3. A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
4. A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).
5. A shield-nosed cobra/coral cobra (genus Aspidelaps).
6. A black desert cobra (genus Walterinnesia).

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