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green mamba
green mamba n. 
/ˌɡrin ˈmæmbə/,
Brit. /ˌɡriːn ˈmambə/
, /ˌɡriːn ˈmambə/U.S. /ˌɡrin ˈmɑmbə/
, /ˌɡrin ˈmɑmbə//ˌɡrin ˈmæmbə/West African English /ˌɡrin ˈmamba/
either of two venomous green arboreal snakes of the genus Dendroaspis (family Elapidae), found in forests in Africa: the common D. angusticeps of southern Africa, and D. viridis of West Africa./ˌɡrin ˈmamba/ΘΚΠ
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1862 J. S. Dobie Jrnl. 16 Oct. in S. Afr. Jrnl. (1945) 44 He called it a green mamba and was about 9 feet long.
1912 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. (ed. 2) vi. 196 Green Mambas are always found in the forests, clumps of tangled creeper-covered bush, and wooded valleys.
1969 J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson Zool. Trop. Afr. iv. 74 Although longer, heavier and more terrestrial than the forest-dwelling green mamba..it [sc. the black mamba] is not confined to the ground.
2003 Jack May 146/1 The Gbayas speak with fear of gòk gòrò, a deadly green tree snake (most probably the green mamba) which sometimes hides inside bees nests.
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