taipan

English - Turkish

Definition of taipan in English Turkish dictionary

{i} yabancı şirket müdürü (çin)

(isim) yabancı şirket müdürü (çin), dev zehirli yılan (avus.)

{i} dev zehirli yılan (avus.)

English - English

Definition of taipan in English English dictionary

a foreign businessman in China; a tycoon

Of course it was very sad, but the taipan could hardly help a smile when he thought how many of these young fellows he had drunk underground.

any of a venomous species of snake, of the family Elapidae, found in Australia and New Guinea

large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia

Hyphenation

tai·pan

Etymology

() From the name of the Thaypan tribe of Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.