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The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.Naja --
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Like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.
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A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.
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The cobra de capello.
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A suborder of serpents including those that have permanently erect grooved poison fangs, with ordinary teeth behind them in the jaws. It includes the cobras, the asps, and the sea snakes. Called also Proteroglyphia.
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See Copra.
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Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.
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A very venomous viper (Daboia Russellii), native of Ceylon and India; -- called also cobra monil.
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A very venomous snake of India (Bungarus coeruleus), allied to the cobra. Its upper parts are bluish or brownish black, often with narrow white streaks; the belly is whitish.
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A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.
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The Egyptian asp or cobra (Naja haje.) It is related to the cobra of India, and like the latter has the power of inflating its neck into a hood. Its bite is very venomous. It is supposed to be the snake by means of whose bite Cleopatra committed suicide, and hence is sometimes called Cleopatra's snake or asp. See Asp.
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