cobra
noun/ˈkəʊbrə/
/ˈkəʊbrə/
- a poisonous snake that can spread the skin at the back of its neck to make itself look bigger. Cobras live in Asia and Africa.Topics Animalsc2Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Portuguese cobra de capello, literally ‘snake with hood’, based on Latin colubra ‘snake’.
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