taipan (2)EnglishOxford New American Dictionarytaipan2 /ˈtīˌpan, ˈtaɪˌpæn / ▸ noun a large brown highly venomous Australian snake. Genus Oxyuranus, family Elapidae: two species, in particular O. scutellatus. – ORIGIN from Wik Mungkan (an Aboriginal language of North Queensland) dhayban.