Other forms: cobras
A cobra is a venomous snake that spreads a hood when threatened. A king cobra, the cobra reared, spitting cobra.
The hood is loose skin stretched over long ribs, and it is a warning rather than a weapon. The king cobra is the longest venomous snake in the world at up to about five and a half metres. Spitting cobras can eject venom several metres, aiming for the eyes. Note that cobras are the snakes of snake-charming, which works by the animal tracking the movement of the pipe rather than by hearing music.
1nouncobraA venomous snake that spreads a hood.
“The cobra reared up to about a metre and stayed there.”
cobra is a snake.
Portuguese cobra de capello meant snake with a hood, from Latin colubra, a snake. English kept only the first word, so the hood the animal is named for has disappeared from the name.
Latin
colubra — a female snake
Portuguese
cobra
English, today
cobra
Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire