taipan

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... and then the snake wrangler proceeds to tells us that the taipan is predominantly found RIGHT WHERE OUR CAMP WAS.

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  1. noun A foreign businessman or a trader in China.
  2. noun A foreigner who is a chief executive of a business or company operating in China; a tycoon.
  3. noun A large, extremely venomous elapid snake (Oxyuranus scutellatus) of Australia and New Guinea, having long fangs and large venom glands.

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  1. Chinese (Cantonese) taaî-paan, eminent businessman, head of a firm, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) tái, big + bān, class.
  2. Wik-Mungan (Aboriginal language of northeast Australia) dhayban.
 

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