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boa constrictors

boa constrictors is the plural of boa constrictor.

Meaning of boa constrictor

Noun

boa constrictor (plural boa constrictors)

  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.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. (broadly) Any large boa or python.
    • We found boa constrictors or pythons, whip snakes, the handsome but deadly tiger snake, so called from the peculiar marks on its skin[.]1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 95

Questions about boa constrictors

What is boa constrictors the plural of?
Boa constrictors is the plural of boa constrictor.

Words near boa constrictors in the dictionary

  1. bo-peeped
  2. bo-peeping
  3. bo-peeps
  4. boa
  5. boa constrictor
  6. boa constrictors
  7. Boa Vista
  8. boa'd
  9. boa'ded
  10. boa'ding
  11. boa'ds

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