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snake-eating cobras

snake-eating cobras is the plural of snake-eating cobra.

Meaning of snake-eating cobra

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

Questions about snake-eating cobras

What is snake-eating cobras the plural of?
Snake-eating cobras is the plural of snake-eating cobra.

Words near snake-eating cobras in the dictionary

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

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