Meaning | Any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs. |
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Member of | Boidae, family Boidae | boas and pythons |
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Narrower | anaconda, Eunectes murinus | large arboreal boa of tropical South America |
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boa constrictor, Constrictor constrictor | Very large boa of tropical America and West Indies |
python | large Old World boas |
rosy boa, Lichanura trivirgata | boa of rocky desert of southwestern United States |
rubber boa, tow-headed snake, Charina bottae | boa of grasslands and woodlands of western North America |
Broader | constrictor | Any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils |
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Spanish | boa |
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Catalan | boa |
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