cobra

CEFRB2

/ˈkəʊbɹə/

noun

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noun
A poisonous snake that can spread its neck when threatened.
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noun
Extra detail
Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae., A ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Naja.
Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.

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There were COBRA forms to fill out for insurance, and unemployment to file for.
2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 478
In the pools, too, was a species of small alligator or enormous iguana, I do not know which, that fed, Billali told me, upon the waterfowl, also large quantities of a hideous black water-snake, of which the bite is very dangerous, though not, I gathered, so deadly as a cobra's or a puff adder's.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

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Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).