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Answer for the clue "Lethal cousin of the cobra ", 5 letters:
mamba

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Mamba is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alberto Mamba (born 1994), Mozambican middle-distance runner Manuel Mamba (born 1958), Filipino politician Mzwandile Mamba (born 1981), Swazi politician Ndumiso Mamba , Swazi government minister ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
large venomous African snake, 1862, from Zulu (i)mamba or Swahili mamba .

Usage examples of mamba.

There was probably not a man in the stockade who had not already read the slim volume, or at least heard of its contents, and if Vicky had thrown a live mamba on the table, their consternation could not have been more intense.

He had gone as pale as though a mamba had crossed the path at his feet.

Then the head of the black mamba rose above the edge of the shelf two feet from where I sat.

The black mamba, the most deadly snake in the world, takes one partner for life.

As most humans instinctively raise their arms in panic to defend their eyes the mamba fangs most often strike into the top of the upper arm.

But the fuse turned instead into the black mamba of the crystal cave of Africa: it rose as it had done outside the cave, its head weaving and its darting tongue becoming the spluttering sparks of the lighted fuse.

It struck high up on the arm where the mamba strikes and sliced through the epidermis above the ragged swastika, the blade cutting a square about four inches across and three down, then I crossed the square from corner to corner to make an X in a cross of St Andrew and then again from centre to centre to make the cross of St George, cutting deep almost to the muscle.

It differs from the green mamba, both in distribution, habitat, and toxi-city of venom.

The mamba can manage a considerable speed over a very short distance, but could not compete with a horse.

He came up over the bank, a brief silhouette against the white pan, quick as a mamba but where Craig had not expected him.

Then Tungata slid forward like a black mamba, barely moving the tall grass as he went through it.

The impi was in position, lying across the Khami hills like a coiled mamba, waiting and watchful and ready.

Her face was flat and sallow, her eyes slitted and bright as those of a mamba, and she wore a cloth cap over her hair, and a baggy cotton uniform like a suit of pyjamas.

Angry at himself for his reaction, he drew down her skirt and released her, muttering a soft curse as he turned and walked swiftly back to where the dead mamba lay.

Reaching inside the canvas bag, he pulled the mamba out and held it up to show its full length, letting its tail trail along the ground.