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cobra definition

co·bra (kō′brə)

noun

  1. any of several genera (esp. Naja) of very poisonous elapine snakes of Asia and Africa, having around the neck loose skin which is expanded into a hood when the snake is excited
  2. leather made of the skin of this snake

Etymology: < Port cobra (de capello), serpent (of the hood) < L colubra, a snake: see colon

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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