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Noun: taipan  'tI,pan
  1. Large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia
    - Oxyuranus scutellatus
     
  2. A foreigner running a business in China

Derived forms: taipans

Type of: elapid, elapid snake

Part of: genus Oxyuranus, Oxyuranus

Encyclopedia: Taipan