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say it: KOH-bruh
cobra is a noun meaning "venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood". It is pronounced /ˈkoʊbɹə/ — KOH-bruh. It carries one recorded sense.
venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cobra come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.