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Boa constrictor

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A large tropical American snake, Boa constrictor, that kills its prey by squeezing them.

    "After him followed a blesbok, then an impala, then a koodoo, then more goats, and many other animals, including a girl sewn up in the shining scaly hide of a boa-constrictor, several yards of which trailed along the ground behind her."

  2. 2
    very large boa of tropical America and West Indies wordnet
  3. 3
    Any large boa or python. broadly

    "We found boa constrictors or pythons, whip snakes, the handsome but deadly tiger snake, so called from the peculiar marks on its skin[.]"

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin Boa constrictor.

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