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snake-eating cobra

snake-eating cobra noun: a king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).

Noun

snake-eating cobra (plural snake-eating cobras)

  1. (archaic) A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
    • [O]ur worst foe of this kind was a large light brown snake, which I think from subsequent experience must have been the reptile known as the Ophiophagus elaps, or snake-eating cobra.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94

Forms of snake-eating cobra

pluralsnake-eating cobras

Questions about snake-eating cobra

What does snake-eating cobra mean?
Snake-eating cobra means a king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
What part of speech is snake-eating cobra?
Snake-eating cobra is a noun.
What is the plural of snake-eating cobra?
The plural of snake-eating cobra is snake-eating cobras.

Words near snake-eating cobra in the dictionary

  1. snake's-head
  2. snake's-heads
  3. snake-bite
  4. snake-bites
  5. snake-cased
  6. snake-eating cobra
  7. snake-eating cobras
  8. snake-eel
  9. snake-eels
  10. snake-fear
  11. snake-fright

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