cobra

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co·bra /ˈkəʊbrə $ ˈkoʊ-/ noun [countable]  HBAa poisonous African or Asian snake that can spread the skin of its neck to make itself look bigger 眼镜蛇

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cobra• Miss McFawn could stare down a cobra.• Its poised, out-thrust head gave it the appearance of a cobra, a white cobra.• Being in this school is like being in a cage with a cobra.• The next foliage to watch for, Lamb predicts, will be ferns and cobra leaves.• I saw a king cobra over there.• Holly's hand moved, the lightning strike of the cobra.• At Byblos she was a serpent-goddess whose cobra symbolized the eye of wisdom.nCOBRA (also COBR) //  nan abbreviation of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A. It can either refer to these offices or to the Civil Contingencies Committee which meets there.Origin cobra (1800-1900) Portuguese cobra (de capello) “snake with a hood”, from Latin colubra “snake”

co·bra nounCOBRALDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable  

a can African skin Asian spread that Corpus or poisonous the snake

COBRA
COBRA
an abbreviation of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms. It can either refer to these offices or to the Civil Contingencies Committee which meets there.

cobra
co‧bra /ˈkəʊbrə $ ˈkoʊ-/ noun [countable]a poisonous African or Asian snake that can spread the skin of its neck to make itself look bigger

cobraBrE /ˈkəʊbrə/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkoʊbrə/ 🔊 noun

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. 眼镜蛇（毒蛇，分布于亚洲和非洲）