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Definition of Green mamba
1. Noun. Green phase of the black mamba.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Mamba
Literary usage of Green mamba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Essential Kafir by Dudley Kidd (1904)
"If the person had been bitten by a green mamba, then he would have to be treated
with green mamba-head dried and powdered. Strange to say, the doctors seem ..."
2. On Safari: Big Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-life by Abel Chapman (1908)
"The green mamba,1 for example, was specially numerous on the bush-veld of the
North-Eastern Transvaal, where three or four sometimes showed up together, ..."
3. In Haunts of Wild Game: A Hunter-naturalist's Wanderings from Kahlamba to by Frederick Vaughan Kirby (1896)
"The green 'mamba, whose common occurrence in Natal is beyond question, I have
never seen in any part of the Eastern Transvaal; in fact, ..."
4. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society by Royal Society of South Africa (1878)
"... said that lie had seen a green Mamba in Natal, but had not been able to secure
it: he noticed that one great peculiarity about this ..."
5. Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick (1907)
"... branches caught his eye because of the thick ring around it : it was the coil
of a long green mamba; and far below that, half hidden by the leaves, ..."
6. Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar by William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald (1898)
"... and looking up hastily, I saw a large green " mamba " with its nasty flat head
over the tea-cup, its body curled round my chair and table. ..."
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