cobra
Definitions of cobra
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venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hoodtypes:cobra de anteojosa cobra of tropical Africa and Asiacobra reallarge cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja
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