snake-eating cobra

noun

A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).

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Meanings

nounsnake-eating cobra (plural snake-eating cobras)

plural snake-eating cobras

  1. archaicA king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).

    [O]ur worst foe of this kind was a large light brown snake, which I think from subsequent experience must have been the reptile known as the Ophiophagus elaps, or snake-eating cobra.

    1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94
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