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taipan
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun taipan has 1 sense
- taipan(n = noun.animal) oxyuranus scutellatus - large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia; Array is a kind of elapid, elapid snake
is a member of genus oxyuranus, oxyuranus
OXFORD DICTIONARY
taipan, n. the head of a foreign business in China.
taipan, n. a large venomous Australian snake, Oxyuranus microlepidotus.
Etymology
Aboriginal
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