cobra
cobra definition
co·bra (kō′brə)
noun
- 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
- 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.
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