cobranoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkəʊ.brə/us/ˈkoʊ.brə/a poisonous snake from Africa and southern Asia that makes itself look bigger and more threatening by spreading the skin at the back of its head
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Reptile & amphibian names
- adder
- alligator
- amphibian
- anaconda
- asp
- constrictor
- crocodile
- frog
- garter snake
- gator
- mamba
- newt
- puff adder
- python
- rattlesnake
- slowworm
- snake
- terrapin
- toad
- tortoise
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Examples from literature
- The cobra lives in old walls or heaps of stone and timber, under roots, or in dead trunks in the forest, in fact anywhere where he can find a sheltered hole.
- The cobra, for example, when disturbed, raises its immense hood in a most terrifying attitude!
- The needle was swaying like a cobra's head.
- The snake-charmer keeps all sorts of them, but chiefly cobras.
- When the charmer begins to play with a cobra he fixes his eyes on it and never removes them for a second.