cobra

名词 n.
/ˈkəʊbɹə/|/ˈkɒbɹə/    /ˈkoʊbɹə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
    — In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.
  2. Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.; A ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).
  3. Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.; A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
  4. Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.; A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).
  5. Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.; A shield-nosed cobra/coral cobra (genus Aspidelaps).
  6. Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.; A black desert cobra (genus Walterinnesia).
  7. Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.; An American cobra (Micrurus fulvius).
  8. A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.
  9. A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.

词形变化

cobras plural

词源

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).
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