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Cobra

[koh-bruh]

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noun

any of several highly venomous, Old World elapid snakes of the genera Naja and Ophiophagus, characterized by the ability to flatten the neck into a hoodlike form when disturbed.

any of several similar, related African snakes, as the ringhals.

leather made from the skin of a cobra.

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Origin:
1810–20; short for cobra de capello

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noun Australian.

head; skull.

Origin:
1825–35; < Dharuk gabarā

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cobra (ˈkəʊbrə)

—n
1.	any highly venomous elapid snake of the genus Naja, such as N. naja (Indian cobra), of tropical Africa and Asia. When alarmed they spread the skin of the neck region into a hood
2.	any related snake, such as the king cobra

[C19: from Portuguese cobra (de capello) snake (with a hood), from Latin colubra snake]

COBRA (ˈkəʊbrə)

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cobra

1802, from Port. cobra (de capello) "serpent (of the hood)," from L. colubra "a snake," of uncertain origin. The word came to Eng. via Portuguese colonies in India, where the native name is nag.

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