anaconda

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anakonda

Güney Amerikalı bir kampçının bir anakonda tarafından yenildiğini duydum. - I heard that a South American camper was eaten by an anaconda.

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Any of various large nonvenomous snakes of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. Their length can grow to as much as 5 m (15 ft)
large arboreal boa of tropical South America
a very large South American snake (Probably from henakandaya type of thin green snake). Either of two South American snake species in the genus Eunectes (family Boidae) that constrict their prey. The heavily built giant anaconda, or great water boa, is usually not more than 16 ft (5 m) long but can be longer than 24 ft (7.5 m), rivaling the largest pythons in length. The yellow anaconda is much smaller. Typically dark green with alternating oval black spots, the giant anaconda lives along tropical rivers east of the Andes and in Trinidad. It kills at night by lying in wait in water; it constricts prey as large as young pigs or caimans and occasionally forages in trees for birds. It may bear 75 live young at a time
{i} large snake that crushes its prey
The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon
A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals
anacondas
plural of anaconda
anacondas
eunectes
anaconda

    Hyphenation

    An·a·con·da

    Turkish pronunciation

    änıkändı

    Pronunciation

    /ˌanəˈkändə/ /ˌænəˈkɑːndə/

    Etymology

    [ "a-n&-'kän-d& ] (noun.) 1768. From the Sinhalese (henakandaya, “one with large body”), a species of (now extinct) constrictor found in Sri Lanka.
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