| 单词 | spitting cobra |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspitting cobra = cobra de capello n.; also applied with distinctive additions to other Indian vipers, and to African snakes of the genus Naja, as the Egyptian cobra ( N. haje), the Cape cobra ( N. nivea), and the spitting cobra (also called black-necked cobra) ( N. nigricollis) (see black adj. and n. Compounds 1a). The name spitting cobra is also given to the rinkhals n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > naja tripudians (cobra) cobra de capello1669 cobra1818 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > naja haje (Egyptian cobra) asp1340 Egyptian cobra1910 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > hemachatus or spitting cobra spuugslang1789 rinkhals1793 spitting cobra1910 spitting cobra1931 1818 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Aug. 227/2 The Cobra Manilla is known on the Malabar coast as the bangle snake. 1836 T. Cantor in Asiatic Researches 19 92 Besides Cobras, there are other hooded serpents in this country. 1856 F. Fleming Southern Afr. xii. 400 The ‘Cobra-di-Capella’ or Hooded Snake, called by the Colonists the ‘Ringeaault’. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 265 The sudden death of Curling, one of the keepers of the Zoological gardens, from the bite of a cobra. 1884 Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc. III. 12 The South African cobra (Naia haje)..is known throughout the Cape Colony by the name Spuugh-slang, and is so called from the power it is supposed to possess of ejecting its poison to a distance. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 197/1 One [genus], Sepedon hæmachates,..or ‘Ring-Neck Snake,’..shares with the cobra a third Dutch name, that of ‘spuw slang’ (Spitting Snake). 1910 F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. iv. 73/2 Egyptian or Banded Cobra. Distribution: Natal, Zululand, Transvaal, Rhodesia, Northwards as far as Sahara Desert. 1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World xiii. 166 The Cobras, Naia, range from the arid North coast to the Cape, the regions between these boundaries being their true headquarters... The Egyptian Cobra, or Asp, Naia haie…has the widest range of any cobra in Africa. 1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World xiii. 167 The Spitting Cobra or Black-Necked Cobra, Naia nigricollis, comes close to being the most dangerous snake of Africa. 1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World xiii. 170 The Black Cobra, Naia melanoleuca..is confined to tropical Africa. 1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World xiii. 171 The Cape Cobra, Naia nivea (flava) is confined to southerly Africa. 1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World xiii. 172 The Ringhals, or Keel-scaled Spitting Cobra, Sepedon haemachates..its scales being keeled, rendering it unique among the cobras. 1959 Cape Argus 31 Oct. 9/7 Cape cobras and puffadders provide most of the venom, but boomslangs, skaapstekers, ringhals cobras and an Egyptian cobra—from Rhodesia—are kept in their special pens on Mr. Wood's farm. spitting cobra spitting cobra n. the African black-necked cobra, Naja nigricollis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > hemachatus or spitting cobra spuugslang1789 rinkhals1793 spitting cobra1910 spitting cobra1931 1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World xiii. 167 The Spitting Cobra or Black-necked Cobra..comes close to being the most dangerous snake of Africa. 1976 G. Durrell Stationary Ark ii. 28 This [word] was expectorated with a venom that would have done credit to a spitting cobra. < as lemmas |
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