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Anaconda
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- 1 A particular variety of stud poker.
- 2 A ghost town in the Boundary Country district, British Columbia, Canada.
- 3 An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
- 4 A city, the county seat of Deer Lodge County, Montana, United States, situated at the foot of the Anaconda Range.
- 1 Any large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. countable
- 2 large arboreal boa of tropical South America wordnet
- 3 The green anaconda, Eunectes murinus. countable
- 4 A large penis. broadly, countable, slang, vulgar
"My anaconda don't want none / Unless you got buns, hon"
- 5 A pattern morph of hognose snake that results in fewer but larger spots and often a completely black belly. uncountable
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- 6 A pattern morph of hognose snake that results in fewer but larger spots and often a completely black belly.; A hognose snake of this morph. countable
Etymology
From New Latin anacandaia (“python”), originally referring to a species of constrictor found in Sri Lanka, from Sinhalese හෙනකඳයා (henakaⁿdayā, “whip snake”), from හෙණ (heṇa, “lightning, thunderbolt”) + කඳ (kaⁿda, “stem, trunk, body”) or from Tamil ஆனைக்கொன்றான் (āṉaikkoṉṟāṉ, “having killed an elephant”), from ஆனை (āṉai, “elephant”) + கொன்றான் (koṉṟāṉ, “having killed”).
From New Latin anacandaia (“python”), originally referring to a species of constrictor found in Sri Lanka, from Sinhalese හෙනකඳයා (henakaⁿdayā, “whip snake”), from හෙණ (heṇa, “lightning, thunderbolt”) + කඳ (kaⁿda, “stem, trunk, body”) or from Tamil ஆனைக்கொன்றான் (āṉaikkoṉṟāṉ, “having killed an elephant”), from ஆனை (āṉai, “elephant”) + கொன்றான் (koṉṟāṉ, “having killed”).
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