What does cobra mean?
Cobra means Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra..
Cobra
/ˈkəʊbɹə/ · 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..
Definitions by Sense
- Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
- Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
- A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.
- 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.
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Word Forms
- cobras
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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.
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