boa constrictor n. 蟒蛇, 王蛇
- It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
它上面画有一只蟒蛇在吞吃一只野兽。 - While visiting in celebration of Dudley's eleventh birthday, Harry discovered here that he could talk to the boa constrictor.
当为了庆祝达利的十一岁生日而在那里参观时,哈利发现它可以与大蟒蛇说话。 - It is hard to take up drawing again at my age, when I have never made any pictures except those of the boa constrictor from the outside and the boa
boa constrictor[ noun ]
very large boa of tropical America and West Indies
<noun.animal>
Boa constrictor \Bo"a con*strict"or\ [NL. See {Boa}, and
{Constrictor}.] (Zo["o]l.)
A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes
twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.
Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and
yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by
constriction. The name is also loosely applied to other
large serpents which crush their prey, particularly to
those of the genus {Python}, found in Asia and Africa.
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