单词 | rinkhals |
释义 | rinkhalsn. A hooded spitting cobra, Hemachatus haemachatus (family Elapidae), which is chiefly dark brown or black with one or two pale bands across the throat, found in southern Africa. Also called African spitting cobra. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > hemachatus or spitting cobra spuugslang1789 rinkhals1793 spitting cobra1910 spitting cobra1931 1793 C. R. Hopson tr. C. P. Thunberg Trav. I. 208 A colonist had been bitten in the foot some time before by a serpent of the species called Ringhals (or Ring-neck). 1835 J. W. D. Moodie Ten Years S. Afr. I. xv. 316 The puff-adder, the ring-hals, and the berg-adder, are very poisonous and very numerous. 1864 J. T. Baines Explor. S.-W. Afr. xiv. 449 I think the species is called ‘ring hals’ (or ringed throat) in the Colony. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 16 Jan. 4/1 A Spurred Chameleon, a small Monitor, and a couple of Ring-hals snakes. 1956 A. G. McRae Hill called Grazing vi. 47 The six-foot-long Rinkhals cobra, reared above its coils, hood flattened and tiny, evil head weaving. 1991 Light Years (Old Mutual Pty. Ltd., S. Afr.) 2 iii. 8 Wear glasses or sunglasses since the rinkhals is a spitting snake, which aims for the eyes with deadly precision. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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