[
US
/ˈkoʊbɹə/
]
[ UK /kˈəʊbɹɐ/ ]
[ UK /kˈəʊbɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
- venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood
How To Use cobra In A Sentence
- They also investigate the origins of various heraldic monsters, such as the basilisk (based on the hooded cobra).
- Mr. Jackson converted a rustic red barn into a herpetarium with displays for a dozen exotic and venomous snakes, including a Burmese python and a monocled cobra.
- Sorry, but I guessed the bait-and-switch just when the second interpolation about cobra flowers hit in. CONSUMING • by Krystyna Smallman
- Special Forces reconnoitered the jungle, looking for U.N. forces being held hostage as part of Cobra Gold 2002 exercises.
- Only he can convene a meeting of Cobra. Times, Sunday Times
- Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
- Although a king cobra can grow to 15ft and has enough venom to knock out an elephant, its first instinct is always to run away from humans. Times, Sunday Times
- The lower slip, after crossing the cords of the brachial plexus and axillary artery, passed deep to coracobrachialis and terminated by fusing with the tendons of latissimus dorsi and teres major in the bicipital groove.
- Yoga is so fashionable it seems absolutely everyone is doing the dog, the cat, the cobra and the plough.
- It is seen as the least dangerous of the notorious cobra family but its bite can still cause rapid death without quick intervention.