constrictor
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- noun
- /kənˈstrɪktər/
:
serpiente constrictora
- Many people are fascinated by the strength of a constrictor when it captures its prey.
- a boa constrictor
- constrictor muscle
They've been, they've been like a boa constrictor moving closer and closer.
- They've been, they've been like a boa constrictor moving closer and closer.
- OK, and now I give you a boa constrictor.
- So you made quick mention of the constricting part of a boa constrictor.
Examples
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The python is a type of constrictor that suffocates its prey by wrapping around it tightly.
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I know a boa constrictor when I see one.
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You know, they say the boa constrictor right there is capable of eating up to 500 pounds per sitting.
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I wanted an albino boa constrictor.
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They had a problem with the boa constrictor.
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Okay, once you get across this stream, we gotta look out for boa constrictors.
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The handler has a giant boa constrictor wrapped around his body.
Blog text (31) -
Members of the troop cooperated to rescue a juvenile from a boa constrictor.
Academic text (2014) -
Zoo-goers are more interested in chimps and boa constrictors.
Fiction book (1990) -
Every ten to fifteen feet, almost as if they had been purposely spaced that way, were loafing boa constrictors coiled around or hanging from tree limbs.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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6.5
A large snake with scales that often appears in myths and stories
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A very large snake that kills animals by wrapping its body around them
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A very large snake that lives in rivers and swamps in tropical South America
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A very large snake from tropical America that is not poisonous and kills animals by wrapping around them and squeezing
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A North American snake that is not venomous and squeezes its prey, often eating other snakes
A very large snake from tropical America often called the boa constrictor
Compounds
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A very large snake from tropical America that is not poisonous and kills animals by wrapping around them and squeezing
- Specialized
A large fast snake with no venom that lives in the eastern United States
- Specialized
A fast, nonpoisonous snake with a blue-green back and yellow belly found from Ohio to Texas
- Specialized
A very large snake from tropical America often called the boa constrictor
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Constrictor comes from the parts con- and strict, which mean 'together' and 'to draw tight', and you can see the same idea in the word string, something pulled tight. So a constrictor is like a 'tight binder' that kills by squeezing its prey, which is why the word means a snake that crushes by coiling.