taipan in English

noun
1
a foreigner who is head of a business in China.
According to the January, 1935 edition of Fortune Magazine, the average salary of taipans working in large foreign hongs was $75,000 per year.
2
a large, brown, highly venomous Australian snake.
For example, Australian snakes such as the taipan and the brown snake use two active enzymes in their venom that are also present in human blood: factor X and factor V.

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1. Category Title Keywords; Toxins: Sea Snake: Toxins: Taipan: Envenoming, Antivenom, snake, coastal taipan, papuan taipan, small-scaled, fierce snake: Toxins

2. Taipan Antivenom (equine IgG Fab) can be used to treat envenomation from the Taipan snakes in Australia and Papua New Guinea, these include the Costal Taipan, Papuan Taipan and the small-scaled or fierce snake

3. View the rock climbing photo titled Cruxing through The Invisable Fist grade 26 (5.12b), Taipan Wall, Grampians, in Mt Stapylton & Hollow Mtn, Taipan Wall on Rockclimbing.com

4. A handful are dangerous—such as the tiger snake, the death adder, and the taipan.