taipan

IPA: tˈaɪpæn

A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.
(Philippines) A tycoon (usually of Chinese Filipino background)
Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.

Examples of "taipan" in Sentences

He was a taipan, one of the big business heads in Shanghai.
Addendum and details Oxyuranus temporalis - the new taipan species
Dubbed the "brown taipan," he stands out as an ethnic Filipino tycoon.
This marks the third species of taipan known, and the first in 125 years.
RESEARCHERS have found a new species of taipan snake slithering in the outback.
Money was only part of the recompense for a taipan or griffin, the assistant to a taipan.
Mark Hutchinson, reptile and amphibian curator at the South Australian Museum, caught the immature female taipan while it was crossing a dirt track.
In the paper A new species of taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia, researchers P. Doughty, B. Maryan, S.C. Donnellan and M.N. Hutchinson (in Zootaxa 1422: 45-58: 2007) described Oxyuranus temporalis.
Heir apparent to Chinese-Filipino taipan John Gokongwei and the driving force behind the rapid expansion of Cebu Pacific, Lance Gokongwei is causing a big splash in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia as he secures more and more routes for the low-cost carrier.
Indonesia: aulia: A maid who arrived in Surabaya from Taiwan is the 1st suspected Indonesian swine flu carrier according to #metrotv (via @wolwol) fujitasenpai: RT @BrandingComm: Rebranding Idea: instead of “Swine Flu” how about “Hamdemic”, “Aporkalypse” or “Snoutbreak”? antonnyliem: Dimsum@ taipan.