| 单词 | water boa |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater boa water boa n. †(a) the common tree boa, Corallus hortulanus, of tropical America (obsolete rare); (b) the anaconda, Eunectes murinus. [ < water n. + boa n.; in quot. 1802 (sense (a)) after scientific Latin Boa enydris ( Linnaeus Systema Naturae (ed. 10, 1758) 215); compare classical Latin enhydris, a kind of snake living in water (Pliny).] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Boidae (boas) > member of genus Eunectes anaconda1768 water boa1802 1802 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. III. 345 Water Boa. Boa Enydris. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. iii. 100 The hideous Sucurujù, or Water Boa (Eunectes murinus), which sometimes attacks man. 1923 Geogr. Rev. 13 209 The Indians talked of snakes, particularly the water boa which haunts the rivers further east. 2004 Observer Mag. (Nexis) 17 Oct. 77 Marven trudges through the wetlands of Venezuela and Brazil in search of the ‘water boa’. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。