cobra

Meanings

1. Any of the genus Naja of venomous snakes that can spread their neck ribs into a broad hood when threatened; a true cobra.
2. Certain other snakes of the family Elapidae.
3. The ring-necked spitting cobra or rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus).
4. The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).
5. A tree cobra (genus Pseudohaje).
6. A shield-nosed cobra/coral cobra (genus Aspidelaps).
7. A black desert cobra (genus Walterinnesia).
8. An American cobra (Micrurus fulvius).
9. A false water cobra, Hydrodynastes gigas.
10. A type of lanyard knot, thought to resemble a snake in its shape.

1. Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
2. Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.
3. Initialism of Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, especially the provision that allows some employees to continue their group-based health insurance after leaving a job; also, health insurance obtained under this law.

1. A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
2. A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room

1. Alternative letter-case form of COBRA.
2. A male given name.

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra (“a female snake”).