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cobra
/ˈkoʊbɹə/
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What does cobra mean?
noun
- Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
- A ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).
- A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
More meanings (13)
noun
- A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).
- A shield-nosed cobra/coral cobra (genus Aspidelaps).
- A black desert cobra (genus Walterinnesia).
- An American cobra (Micrurus fulvius).
- A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.
- A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.
- A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
- A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room
proper noun
- Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
- Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.
- Initialism of Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, especially the provision that allows some employees to continue their group-based health insurance after leaving a job; also, health insurance obtained under this law.
- Alternative letter-case form of COBRA.
- (rare) A male given name.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkoʊbɹə/
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Each leg has carved in relief two Uroei, the sacred cobra serpent of Egypt, symbolic of a goddess.
Angry as he was, Rikki-tikki was very frightened as he saw the size of the big cobra.
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The next moment a huge cobra sprang out from a clump of grass and struck at him.
At the head of the list is the cobra, the deadliest known to the world, a snake whose bite kills where the rattlesnake's bite merely entertains.
In this country the wounds invariably are on the extremities, while in India the cobra sometimes strikes on the shoulder or neck.