boa constrictor

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈboʊə kənˌstɹɪktɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. Any large boa or python. broadly
    — We found boa constrictors or pythons, whip snakes, the handsome but deadly tiger snake, so called from the peculiar marks on its skin[.]

词形变化

boa constrictors plural

词源

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin Boa constrictor.
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