taipan
IPA: tˈaɪpæn
noun
- 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.
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Examples of "taipan" in Sentences
- They are rodent feeders, especially the inland taipan.
- It is a species of Taipan belonging to the Elapidae family.
- The ride is now a traveling roller coaster known as Taipan.
- Inland Taipan tend to be lighter in summer and darker in winter.
- It is the first new taipan species to be discovered in 125 years.
- Inland Taipan produce clutches of between one and two dozen eggs.
- I've only ever seen an inland taipan once, and it was in captivity.
- The inland taipan is native to the arid regions of central Australia.
- All music written by Taipan, except one riff on track 2 by Tormentor.
- He was taipan of Jardine, Matheson from the 1890s to the turn of the century.
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