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anaconda

1

[ an-uh-kon-duh ]

noun

  1. a South American boa, Eunectes murinus, that often grows to a length of more than 25 feet (7.6 meters).
  2. any large boa.
  3. Cards. a variety of poker in which each player is dealt seven cards, discards two, and turns up one of the remaining five before each betting round.


Anaconda

2

[ an-uh-kon-duh ]

noun

  1. a city in SW Montana.

anaconda

/ ˌænəˈkɒndə /

noun

  1. a very large nonvenomous arboreal and semiaquatic snake, Eunectes murinus, of tropical South America, which kills its prey by constriction: family Boidae (boas)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of anaconda1

1760–70; misapplication of a name originally used for a snake of Sri Lanka; earlier anacandaia < Sinhalese henakandayā kind of snake
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Word History and Origins

Origin of anaconda1

C18: probably changed from Sinhalese henakandayā whip snake, from hena lightning + kanda stem; originally referring to a snake of Sri Lanka
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Example Sentences

When Nicki Minaj released her “Anaconda” music video, the blatant booty was meant to spark a conversation.

Even the more cartoonish way that Minaj is celebrating her ass in the “Anaconda” video may not be wise.

Minaj dropped her newest single Anaconda on Monday, a Sir Mix-A-Lot sampling ode to her own assets.

A suffocating silence filled the Sustainer Theater on LSA Anaconda in Iraq.

This is like telling a man wrestling four alligators not to ignore that 30-foot anaconda that just slipped into the pond.

A horse goes down entire, but a cow sticks at the horns, which the anaconda cannot swallow.

"The trouble with painting to-day is that it has no point of view," cried Rantoul, swallowing an egg in the anaconda fashion.

Anaconda, an-a-kon′da, n. a large South American water-snake of the Python family, closely related to the boa-constrictor.

His great anaconda has gathered itself in a circle around the doomed rabbit of rebellion, and if the rabbit swells he's a goner.

In Montana we have one of the greatest copper mines in America, called the Anaconda.

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