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单词 pythonomorph
释义

python /pīˈthən/

noun
  1. A large snake that crushes its victims, esp and properly, one of the Old World genus Python, related to the boas
  2. A familiar or possessing spirit
  3. Someone possessed by a spirit
  4. Someone who utters oracles
ORIGIN: Python, the great snake killed, according to Greek mythology, at Pȳthō (Delphi), the name being associated with Gr pȳthein to rot, because the snake's body rotted

Pyˈthoness noun

  1. The priestess of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi
  2. (without cap) a witch

pythonic /-thonˈik/ adjective

pythonˈomorph /-ō-mörf/ noun and adjective

(see -morph) (a member) of the Pythonomorˈpha, in some classifications an extinct suborder of Squamata, large marine reptiles of the Cretaceous period, with long, scaly bodies and paddle-shaped limbs

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