She was a tiny girl, but she really held her own on the baritone sax. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but imagine the thing wrapping itself around her and devouring her like a boa constrictor.
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Boa
//ˈboʊ.ə//
Synonyms for "boa" (10 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (3)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (5)
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7 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 36 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- boa noun (scarf)
Albanian
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boa noun (scarf)
Arabic
1 entries- بُوَاء noun (snake)
Basque
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- lepoko noun (scarf)
Catalan
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boà noun (scarf)
Chamicuro
2 entries- akumawa noun (snake)
- kasesepi noun (snake)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蚺 noun (snake)
Czech
1 entries- hroznýš noun (snake)
Danish
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boa noun (scarf)
Dutch
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boa noun (scarf)
Esperanto
1 entries- boao noun (snake)
Finnish
4 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boakäärme noun (snake)
- höyhenhuivi noun (scarf)
- jättiläiskäärme noun (snake)
French
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boa noun (scarf)
Galician
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boa noun (scarf)
German
1 entries- Boa noun (snake)
Greek
1 entries- βόας noun (snake)
Hindi
1 entries- अजगर noun (snake)
Ingrian
1 entries- udava noun (snake)
Italian
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boa noun (scarf)
Japanese
1 entries- ボア noun (snake)
Kazakh
1 entries- жалғанаяқты noun (snake)
Korean
2 entries- 보아 noun (snake)
- 왕뱀 noun (snake)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- боа noun (snake)
- удав noun (snake)
Macedonian
3 entries- бо́а noun (snake)
- зми́ски цар noun (snake)
- у́дав noun (snake)
Manx
1 entries- aarnieu traastagh noun (snake)
Mon
1 entries- ကၠန် noun (snake)
Māori
1 entries- poa noun (snake)
Pali
1 entries- ajagara noun (snake)
Polish
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- boa noun (scarf)
Portuguese
2 entries- boa noun (snake)
- jiboia noun (snake)
Romanian
1 entries- boa noun (snake)
Russian
4 entries- бо́а noun (snake)
- бо́а noun (scarf)
- горже́тка noun (scarf)
- уда́в noun (snake)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- udav noun (snake)
- удав noun (snake)
Spanish
1 entries- boa noun (snake)
Tuvan
1 entries- богаа noun (scarf)
Ukrainian
1 entries- уда́в noun (snake)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
A boa is very dangerous, and an elephant is very bulky.
Source: tatoeba (8770931)
That is not my fault; the grown-ups had put a stop to my artistic career when I was six and I had never drawn anything other than my two boa constrictors.
Source: tatoeba (8995188)
The monkey was swallowed by a boa constrictor.
Source: tatoeba (10751437)
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