cobra
noun /ˈkəʊbrə/
/ˈkəʊbrə/
- enlarge imagea poisonous snake that can spread the skin at the back of its neck to make itself look bigger. Cobras live in Asia and Africa.Topics Animalsc2Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Portuguese cobra de capello, literally ‘snake with hood’, based on Latin colubra ‘snake’.