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Indian cobra

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noun

  1. a highly venomous cobra, Naja naja, common in India, having markings resembling a pair of spectacles on the back of the hood.


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Indian antivenom targets the “big four” species of venomous snakes in the region: the Indian cobra, the common krait, Russell's viper and the saw-scaled viper.

From Scientific American Sep. 23, 2023

Quite parallel in function is the expanded hood of the Indian cobra, a poisonous snake which belongs also to the Elapidae.

From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace

The venom of the East Indian cobra and of other tropical and subtropical snakes would not be affected in the slightest degree by all the whiskey in Kentucky.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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