camoudien.
/kəˈmuːdi/ A boa constrictor of tropical America.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Boidae (boas) > member of genus Constrictor
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1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 11 The Camoudi snake..from thirty to forty feet long.
1851 W. H. Brett Indian Missions Guiana 35 The reptile, a large camudi, sprang upon him.
1866 R. Duff Brit. Guiana 42 The camoedi was killed with a cutlass.
1887 Timehri 1 202 A very fine skin of a large Land-camoodie.
1898 H. Kirke 25 Years Brit. Guiana 90 A camoudie shot over him and wrapped itself round his body.
1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions ii. 31 If dangerous creatures had existed there—tigers, or camoodis, or solitary murderous savages.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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