Taipan

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• Taipan — (Oxyuranus scutellatus) Systematik Unterordnung: Schlangen (Serpentes) Familie: Giftnatte …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Taipan — Taïpan du désert Taïpan du désert …   Wikipédia en Français

• Taipan! — is a turn based strategy computer game for the Apple II and TRS 80 which was created in 1982. It was created by Art Canfil and the company Mega Micro Computers. It was published by Avalanche Productions.Taipan! was inspired from the novel Tai Pan …   Wikipedia

• taipan — [tī pan′] n. a deadly venomous snake (Oxyuranus scutellatus) of the cobra family, found mainly in Australia …   English World dictionary

• Taipan — This article is about the Australian snake. For other uses, see Tai Pan (disambiguation). Taipans Inland Taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) Scientific classification …   Wikipedia

• taipan — taipan1 /tuy pan/, n. (in China) the head or owner of a foreign business establishment. [1895 1900; < dial. Chin (cf. Guangdong dial. daaih baan), akin to Chin dàban (dà great + ban company, class)] taipan2 /tuy pan/, n. a highly venomous elapid… …   Universalium

• taipan — UK [ˈtaɪpæn] / US [ˈtaɪˌpæn] noun [countable] Word forms taipan : singular taipan plural taipans a foreign businessman who has an important job in China …   English dictionary

• taipan — noun a) any of a venomous species of snake, of the family Elapidae, found in Australia and New Guinea 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. b) …   Wiktionary

• Taipan — 1Tai|pan der; s, s <aus der Sprache der austr. Ureinwohner> in Australien u. Neuguinea vorkommende, braun bis schwarz gefärbte, bis 4 m lange, äußerst gefährliche Giftnatter Taipan 2 2Tai|pan der; s, e chin.> Leiter eines ausländischen… …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

• taipan —    (tye PAN) [Chinese: great company] The owner or head of a foreign business establishment.    The company was sold some years ago by the bank’s new taipan, who saw it as too extravagant …   Dictionary of foreign words and phrases