Highly venomous snakes found in Asia and Africa, famous for their ability to flatten their neck into a hood when threatened.
From Portuguese 'cobra de capelo' meaning 'hooded snake,' from Latin 'colubra' (serpent). The word came to English through Portuguese colonial trade in India.
Cobras are actually not automatically aggressive—they use their hood as a bluff to look bigger, and they'll usually flee if given a chance; it's the threat display, not the attack, that's famous.
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