🇬🇧 Cobra meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A cobra is a type of snake that lives in places like Africa and southern Asia. It has poison in its fangs that it uses to catch its food. When a cobra feels scared or angry, it lifts the front of its body and spreads the skin on its neck like a hood so it looks bigger and more dangerous. People should stay far away from wild cobras, but scientists study them carefully to learn about how they live and how their poison works.

The cobra looked at my messy bedroom and hissed, “Even I don’t live in this kind of chaos.”

The cobra spread its hood at a passing turtle, and the turtle just blinked like, “Nice costume.”

The cobra hissed so loudly that the other animals asked it to use its “indoor jungle voice.”

Our science poster showed a cobra so fierce that even the drawn stick figures ran away.

Some cobras can spit their venom to protect themselves—imagine a snake that defends itself by doing the world’s most dangerous spit-take!

On the dusty path a cobra rose and spread its hood. The cobra hissed; the cobra's black eyes fixed on the small dog. The dog froze as the cobra lifted higher. She stepped back, heart racing, and the cobra tasted the air, then slid into the grass. Relief washed over her; the cobra was gone.

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