boa constrictor
large non-poisonous snake which squeezes its victims to death
Boa constrictor
Red-tailed boa redirects here. :For other uses, see
Boa Constrictor (disambiguation) The boa constrictor (Boa constrictor ssp.), red-tailed boa, jibóia (
Latin American name) or macajuel (pronounced mah-cah-well) (
Trinidadian name) is a species of
boa. It represents a rare case of an animal having the same common and scientific name. Though all boa species are constrictors, in that they kill their prey by constriction, only one species is properly called a "boa constrictor."
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boa constrictor
Noun
1. very large boa of tropical America and West Indies
(synonym) Constrictor constrictor
(hypernym) boa
Boa Constrictor
boa constrictor, large non-poisonous snake which squeezes its victims to death
Boa constrictor
A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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