| 单词 | taipan |
| 释义 | taipan taipan1 /tuy"pan/, n. (in China) the head or owner of a foreign business establishment. [1895-1900; < dial. Chin (cf. Guangdong dial. daaih-baan), akin to Chin dàban (dà great + ban company, class)] taipan2 /tuy"pan/, n. a highly venomous elapid snake, Oxyuranus scutellatus, of New Guinea and northern Australia, that grows to a length of from 10 to 12 ft. (3.1 to 3.7 m). [1930-35; < Wik-Munkan (Australian Aboriginal language spoken around the Archer River, N Queensland), recorded as tay-pan] |
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