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cobra

/koh-bruh/US // ˈkoʊ brə //UK // (ˈkəʊbrə) //

眼镜蛇,眼镜鱼,眼镜蛇蛇,眼镜蛇蛇形物

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several highly venomous, Old World elapid snakes of the genera Naja and Ophiophagus, characterized by the ability to flatten the neck into a hoodlike form when disturbed.
    • : any of several similar, related African snakes, as the ringhals.
    • : leather made from the skin of a cobra.
    • : Military. a single-engine, two-seat U.S. Army attack helicopter armed with missiles, rockets, and a 20 mm cannon and in service since 1977.

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Examples

  • Forget about the arm for a minute, that implausibly strong, tensile, spitting cobra of an arm.

  • Sata, who was known as King Cobra because of his sharp tongue, was thought to have been seriously ill for some time.

  • Miraculously, and thanks to three hundred Marines and Cobra attack helicopters, the convoy made it to Kirkuk.

  • Cameron later cut short his European trip and will chair another Cobra meeting Thursday morning.

  • Her husband, Major John Ruocco USMC was a decorated Cobra pilot and died by suicide on February 7, 2005.

  • In the wake of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, they teamed up again to produce Cobra II in 2007.

  • In the moonlight I could distinctly see the head of a cobra lying on another branch very near mine.

  • Then the cobra crawled along the branch to the trunk of the tree, and then on down to the ground.

  • The cobra was a sacred beast to the Hindus, and a seven-headed one was peculiarly so, seven being a mystic number.

  • All horrent the cobra exalts his hooded head, and the spanning jaws fly open.

  • Put round the neck a cobra-capella, and dress him in the garments by making nine folds round the waist.