constrictor
pronunciation
How to pronounce constrictor in British English:
UK [kən'strɪktə]
How to pronounce constrictor in American English:
US [kən'strɪktə]
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- Noun:
- any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils
Word Origin
- constrictor (n.)
- 1735, agent noun in Latin form from constrict.
Example
- 1. In this metaphor , russia wasn 't the boa constrictor .
- 2. I do not want an elephant inside a boa constrictor .
- 3. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant .
- 4. Constrictor , why did the little prince understand it at the first sight ?
- 5. The singer once owned a boa constrictor called " muscles "