cobra

Definition

Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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."