| 单词 | hooded snake |
| 释义 | > as lemmashooded snake hooded snake n. (also hooded serpent) a snake of the family Elapidæ or Najidæ, having the power of distending the elastic skin of the neck, so as to resemble a hood or cowl: esp. the Indian cobra, Naja tripudians. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > member of Naja1753 hooded snake1774 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 216 The Cobra di Capello, or Hooded Serpent. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 94 The Hooded Snake... When it is irritated or preparing to bite, this animal..seems, as it were, hooded by the expanded skin of the neck: hence its name of Cobra di Capello, or Hooded Serpent. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 62/2 We owe to Dr. Cantor..the introduction of a new genus of hooded snakes, Hamadryas. < as lemmas |
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