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Any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils
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constrictor
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Constrictor ( Frank Payne ) is a fictional character , a supervillain turned antihero , appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constrictor \Con*strict"or\, n. That which constricts, draws together, or contracts. (Anat.) A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter. (Zo["o]l.) A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. That which constricts or tightens.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1735, agent noun in Latin form from constrict .
Usage examples of constrictor.
To Zipp, it was as if his neck was encircled by a metal boa constrictor.
In recent years, customs inspectors in Florida have arrested a woman trying to smuggle in a rare woolly monkey by hiding it in her overcoat, and a man wearing a vest with special pockets to carry his Australian-palm-cockatoo eggs, and a man carrying a toy Teddy bear stuffed with live tortoises, and a man with a live boa constrictor under his shirt, and a man with pygmy marmosets in his fanny pack.
Did you think that because the constrictor came from another planet, it wouldn't sense you were looking at it?
The constrictor looked away, you looked away, then the constrictor looked back, and promptly noticed the change in the position of your eyes.
However, while he was gingerly poking at them, a boa constrictor glided silently out of the shadows unnoticed.
A snake shaped like a boa constrictor, and about the size of a sea serpent, thrust its snout at Connely like a battering ram.
In fact, many citizens are inclined to censure Grafton for the skunk, but the way I look at it, a character who spends his money the way he does is entitled to come around with a boa constrictor in his pockets if he feels like it.
He had always thought it incredible that the boaconstrictor should be larger than any sea-snake.
He promised me the cutlery would only remain in the apartment for a few days, but I knew that someone with eyes like a starving boa constrictor would be capable of telling anything to anyone.
ASTRAEA: With the assumption, that as I am feminine I must necessarily be in the folds of the horrible constrictor they call Love, and that I leap to the thoughts of their debasing marriage.
It keeps the cutworm from doing its boa constrictor number on the plant.
Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orang-utans, wild boar—that’s the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you’d be amazed at all the animals that would fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants in untold numbers.
Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orang-utans, wild boar—that's the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it, you'd be amazed at all the animals that would fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants in untold numbers.