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say it: MAHM-buh
mamba is a noun meaning "arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal". It carries one recorded sense.
arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal
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 mamba 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.