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Boa constrictor   Listen
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Boa constrictor  n.  (Zool.) A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction. The name is also loosely applied to other large serpents which crush their prey, particularly to those of the genus Python, found in Asia and Africa.





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"Boa constrictor" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Zoo on Whit-Monday, and one anxious father who had mislaid a couple of infants stayed for a long time in the reptile-house, looking suspiciously at the swollen appearance of the boa constrictor. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919 • Various
... a living rope! That's a big boa constrictor that has Mr. Damon! Get a gun, Ned, and follow me! We must save him before he is ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton


Words linked to "Boa constrictor" :   boa, Constrictor constrictor


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