cobra

noun

1. 1

   Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.

   In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.

2. 2

   Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae. A ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).

3. 3

   Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae. A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).

4. 4

   Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae. A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).

5. 5

   Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae. A shield-nosed cobra/coral cobra (genus Aspidelaps).

6. 6

   Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae. A black desert cobra (genus Walterinnesia).

7. 7

   Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae. An American cobra (Micrurus fulvius).

8. 8

   A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.

9. 9

   A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.

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plural

cobras