snake-eating cobra

English

Noun

snake-eating cobra (plural snake-eating cobras)

1. (archaic) A king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94:

     [O]ur worst foe of this kind was a large light brown snake, which I think from subsequent experience must have been the reptile known as the Ophiophagus elaps, or snake-eating cobra.