Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny 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). · A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).
Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).
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