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Venomous snake
Answer for the clue "Venomous snake ", 6 letters:
taipan
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n. large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia [syn: Oxyuranus scutellatus ]
Usage examples of taipan.
Soon after, he got the perturbing news the new jackeroo, a kid called Marshall, had been bitten by a desert taipan in the gidgee scrub out at Camp Moggill.
He trained in classic, rather old-fashioned jiujitsu, and he played rugby with the international side against the sons of the British taipans with an effectiveness that bordered on brutality.
Down at number Three, the Bund, British taipans lounging about in the Shanghai Club agreed that this latest development in the pointless struggle between Orientals might get out of hand, if not dealt with briskly.
British taipans was reinforced by messages sent by European and American ambassadors to Nanking and Tokyo demanding that Shanghai be excluded from the zone of hostilities.
Its empty windows stared out over the desolation of the city the taipans had created, drained, then deserted.
In a private suite in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation building, Ned Kelly waited patiently to see Harold Pang, one of the Taipans of the city.
She was executive secretary to the taipan, a distant cousin to Phillip Chen.