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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cobra has 1 sense
- cobra(n = noun.animal) Array - venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood; Array is a kind of elapid, elapid snake
has particulars: indian cobra, naja naja, asp, egyptian cobra, naja haje, black-necked cobra, naja nigricollis, spitting cobra, hamadryad, king cobra, naja hannah, ophiophagus hannah
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cobra, n. any venomous snake of the genus Naja, native to Africa and Asia, with a neck dilated like a hood when excited.
Etymology
Port. f. L colubra snake
ROGET THESAURUS
cobra
Evil doer
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