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A genus of Australasian snakes of the family Elapidae, which consists of large, smooth-scaled venomous snakes, some of which can flatten the neck like a cobra when threatened, and comprises the black snakes and the king brown snake (Pseudechis australis); (also pseudechis) a snake of this genus.
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Encyclopaedia Britannica. From scientific Latin Pseudechis from ancient Greek ψευδ- + ἔχις viper, probably after German † Trugschlange.
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