Cobra

Quick meaning: Cobra is a noun meaning Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.

Meaning

Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.

More Meanings

1. Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
2. A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.
3. A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• cobras

Related Words

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