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Taipan
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Taipan
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a large highly venomous elapid snake, Oxyuranus scutellatus, of NE Australia
noun
the foreign head of a business in China
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Taipan
see synonyms of taipan noun
a deadly venomous snake (Oxyuranus scutellatus) of the cobra family, found mainly in Australia
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Taipan
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1. A powerful businessman in China or Southeast Asia.
2. The head of a British trading company in colonial Hong Kong.
n.
Any of several large brown venomous elapid snakes of the genus Oxyuranus of Australia and New Guinea, especially O. scutellatus.
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