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mamba
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mamba has 1 sense
- mamba(n = noun.animal) - arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal; is a kind of elapid, elapid snake
is a member of dendraspis, dendroaspis, genus dendraspis, genus dendroaspis
has particulars: black mamba, dendroaspis augusticeps
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mamba, n. any venomous African snake of the genus Dendroaspis, esp. the green mamba (D. angusticeps) or black mamba (D. polylepis).
Etymology
Zulu imamba
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