boa constrictor

Definitions

1. A large tropical American snake, Boa constrictor, that kills its prey by squeezing them.
2. Any large boa or python.
   broadly

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Examples

“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.”

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

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