A highly venomous slender olive-brown to dark grey snake that moves with great speed and agility. Native to eastern and southern Africa, it is the largest poisonous snake on the continent.
非洲黑曼巴蛇
Dendroaspis polylepis, family Elapidae
Example sentencesExamples
I learned that cobras are comparatively easy to dodge, but that you have to run like hell to get away from black mambas.
When he picks up his harmless little African dirt snake, it somehow magically transforms into a deadly black mamba, ready to spread some fanged fury around.
Join the world's fastest serpent - the deadly black mamba, whose venom can kill a human in just 15 minutes - as it zips along the African wilderness in search of its next meal.
It seems to me the world would have been just fine without such creatures as black mambas and water moccasins.
The 6ft green mamba, 4ft black mamba and 5ft forest cobra are all deadly, and have been taken to a local zoo for safekeeping.
Definition of black mamba in US English:
black mamba
noun
A highly venomous slender olive-brown to dark gray snake that moves with great speed and agility. Native to eastern and southern Africa, it is the largest poisonous snake on the continent.
非洲黑曼巴蛇
Dendroaspis polylepis, family Elapidae
Example sentencesExamples
I learned that cobras are comparatively easy to dodge, but that you have to run like hell to get away from black mambas.
The 6ft green mamba, 4ft black mamba and 5ft forest cobra are all deadly, and have been taken to a local zoo for safekeeping.
It seems to me the world would have been just fine without such creatures as black mambas and water moccasins.
When he picks up his harmless little African dirt snake, it somehow magically transforms into a deadly black mamba, ready to spread some fanged fury around.
Join the world's fastest serpent - the deadly black mamba, whose venom can kill a human in just 15 minutes - as it zips along the African wilderness in search of its next meal.