python

noun

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as in cobra

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Recent Examples of python Unlike the larger reticulated python, which has occasionally been known to swallow humans, Burmese pythons do not see people as prey, though do have a powerful bite and will go after pet dogs and cats. — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 22 Aug. 2026 The 50-kilogram (110-pound) reticulated python, named after Hollywood star Jodie Foster, lives at Chester Zoo in England’s northwest. — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 In past episodes, this has meant dressing up as Sigmund Freud in Vienna, singing with The Irish Tenors in Dublin, and facing off with a python in Bangkok. — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2026 The full list of this year’s top python hunters is finally here. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for python
Recent Examples of Synonyms for python
  1. cobra
  2. anaconda
  3. rattlesnake
  4. boa
  5. mamba
  6. moccasin
  7. asp
  8. garter snake
Noun
  • The cobra seems angry and writhes and attacks, and the handler holds the snake at bay, looking like a man who has made poor lifestyle choices and therefore deserves whatever is coming courtesy of his snake pal.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
  • McMahan was vital in discovering a new form of cobra lily, Arisaema mcmahanii, in Vietnam.
    — Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 27 July 2026
Definition of cobra
Noun
  • During the show, he was filmed skiing to the South Pole, catching a giant anaconda, milking a venomous tarantula and diving under the ice of the North Pole.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 29 Aug. 2026
  • This is a sport in which bodies get crunched, ears, noses and faces get peppered, and matches can be won by an anaconda choke or a guillotine choke.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of anaconda
Noun
  • Arrival afternoon consists of a breath-work class and a short hike on property—which included, to my dismay, a timber-rattlesnake sighting.
    — Johanna Wolfe, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Multiple rescue teams worked together and found a hiker who had been bitten by a rattlesnake in the Angeles Forest earlier this month.
    — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of rattlesnake
Noun
  • Or, as befits Mandy’s fashion sense, the next feather in a boa.
    — Arsenio Orteza, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Cheers erupted when Griffin, Parker and her two children from previous relationships led a calf with a giant pink boa and a fluffy pink flower around its neck into the yard.
    — KC Baker, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
Definition of boa
Noun
  • The progression observed in black mamba envenomation reflects a different process.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • The Oilers’ penalty kill had its issues –– virtually any team with weak goaltending does –– but their power play remained as lethal as a black mamba.
    — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of mamba
Noun
  • The $1,180 style is classified as a loafer, though the design has none of the keeper straps, tassels or moccasin stitching that have been popular with the silhouette’s comeback.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Seersucker jackets, moccasins without socks, and dress shirts designed to expose just enough of the body to be sensual.
    — Dave Schilling Contributing Follow, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
Definition of moccasin
Noun
  • The following year Antony died by suicide, and Cleopatra took her own life soon after, reportedly dying from an asp’s poison.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Then, as legend holds, the queen let a poisonous asp bite her, choosing death with Antony over life under Octavian’s rule.
    — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 16 Feb. 2026
Definition of asp
Noun
  • The garter snakes survive Manitoba's severe winters by hibernating in a network of limestone crevasses and caverns below the frost line.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Snakes, such as garter snakes and thread snakes, eat snails, ant larvae, and other invertebrates, while gopher snakes, rat snakes, and other larger snakes are excellent mousers and will even take packrats, Amarello says.
    — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 6 May 2026
Definition of garter snake

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