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boa constrictor
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boa constrictor
n.
A large boa (Boa constrictor) of tropical America that has brown markings and kills its prey by constriction.
boa constrictor
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a very large snake, Constrictor constrictor, of tropical America and the Caribbean, that kills its prey by constriction: family Boidae (boas)
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Noun1.boa constrictorboa constrictor - very large boa of tropical America and West Indies
Constrictor constrictor
boa - any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs


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Apart from a brief stay in a remote area of Peru, where his mother, anthropologist Diana Wall, did field work, Rockman grew up an urban child in an Upper East Side apartment oddly populated with newts, cats, boa constrictors, iguanas, tortoises, and lizards.
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