Crossword clues for taipan
taipan
- James Clavell book
- Classic Clavell novel
- Large snake or James Clavell best seller
- Clavell's "Shogun" sequel
- Clavell novel
- Venomous Australian snake
- Second book in James Clavell's Asian Saga
- Second book in Clavell's "Asian Saga"
- Novel set after the First Opium War
- Large brown, highly-venomous snake
- Foreign tycoon in Hong Kong
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon. (from 19th c.) n. A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon. (from 19th c.) Etymology 2
n. Any venomous elapid snake of the genus ''Oxyuranus'', found in Australia and New Guinea. (from 20th c.)
WordNet
n. large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia [syn: Oxyuranus scutellatus]
Wikipedia
The taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the elapid family. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous, and endemic to Australasia. There are currently three recognized species, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. The taipans are considered some of the most deadly known snakes.
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.