NAJA NAJA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Naja naja mean? 

• NAJA NAJA (noun)
  The noun NAJA NAJA has 1 sense:

1. a cobra of tropical Africa and Asia

  Familiarity information: NAJA NAJA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAJA NAJA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cobra of tropical Africa and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Indian cobra; Naja naja

Hypernyms ("Naja naja" is a kind of...):

cobra (venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood)

Holonyms ("Naja naja" is a member of...):

genus Naja; Naja (cobras)

 Context examples 

However, in the study, Senji Laxme from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and colleagues show that the antivenom used in India works only against the ‘big four’ — the common krait (Bungarus caeruleus), spectacled cobra (Naja naja), saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus) and Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) — but not against several other medically important species.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)