- cobra - venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood
--1 is a kind of elapid, elapid snake
--1 has particulars:Indian cobra, Naja naja; asp, Egyptian cobra, Naja haje; black-necked cobra, spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis; hamadryad, king cobra, Ophiophagus hannan, Naja hannah