What is "anaconda"

Anaconda \An`a*con"da\, n. [Of Ceylonese origin?] (Zo["o]l.) A large South American snake of the Boa family ( Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent ( Python tigris) of Ceylon.

1768, a name first used in English to name a Ceylonese python, it was applied erroneously to a large South American boa, called in Brazil sucuriuba. The word is of uncertain origin, and no snake name like it now is found in Sinhalese or Tamil. One suggestion is that it is a Latinization of Sinhalese henacandaya "whip snake," literally "lightning-stem" [Barnhart]. Another suggestion is that it represents Tamil anaikkonda "having killed an elephant" [OED].

n. 1 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). 2 (context by extension slang vulgar English) penis.

n. large arboreal boa of tropical South America [syn: Eunectes murinus]

An anaconda is a large snake found in tropical South America. Although the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is the largest snake in the world by weight, and the second longest.

Anaconda may refer to:

• Any member of the genus Eunectes, a group of large, aquatic snakes found in South America
  • Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Eunectes notaeus, the yellow anaconda, a small species, is found in eastern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
  • Eunectes deschauenseei, the darkly-spotted anaconda, is a rare species found in northeastern Brazil and coastal French Guiana.
  • Eunectes beniensis, the Bolivian anaconda, the most recently defined species, is found in the Departments of Beni and Pando in Bolivia.
• The giant anaconda is a mythical snake of enormous proportions said to be found in South America.
• The term was previously applied imprecisely, indicating any large snake that "constricts" its prey (see Constriction) was called anaconda, though this usage is now archaic.

Anaconda is a 1997 adventure horror film by Peruvian director Luis Llosa, starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, and Eric Stoltz. It centers on a documentary film crew who have been taken hostage by a snake hunter who is going after the legendary giant anaconda, which is discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

Despite receiving mostly negative reviews from critics, the film was a box-office hit and was followed by a series of sequels and a crossover film with the Lake Placid franchise.

Anaconda is the installer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, Scientific Linux, CentOS and Fedora.

Anaconda is a variety of stud poker. Other names for this game include "pass the trash", "screw your neighbor", "fuck your neighbor", and "3,2,1 left".

Anaconda is a steel roller coaster located at Kings Dominion. Built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, Anaconda opened in 1991 as the first looping roller coaster to feature an underwater tunnel and the first at Kings Dominion with more than one inversion.

An anaconda is a large, non-venomous snake found in tropical South America.

Anaconda may also refer to:

Anaconda is a freemium open source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Its package management system is conda.

"Anaconda" is a 1983 single by the Sisters of Mercy. It reached No. 3 on the UK Indie Chart and was named Single of the Week by several UK music magazines. The single was later included on the Some Girls Wander by Mistake collection.

Anaconda (Blanche Sitznski) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She made her first appearance in Marvel Two-in-One #64 (June 1980), created by writers Mark Gruenwald and Ralph Macchio. She has generally been associated with the Serpent Squad, often as foes of Captain America.

Sitznski was given her super human abilities by the Roxxon corporation, dubbing her Anaconda due to her powerful, adamantium enhanced arms she uses to constrain or crush her opponents with. Her first mission was as part of the Serpent Squad where they tried to retrieve the Serpent Crown only to be thwarted by Thing, Stingray and Triton. She later became a core member of Sidewinder's Serpent Squad and remained a member when they became the Serpent Society and clashed with Captain America on multiple occasions. When Viper took over and created Serpent Solutions Anaconda remained a member of the group.

"Anaconda" is a song by Trinidadian-born American rapper Nicki Minaj, from her third studio album, The Pinkprint (2014). It was released on August 4, 2014 by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, and Republic Records as the second single from the album. The song was produced by Polow da Don, Anonymous, and Da Internz. The song heavily samples " Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot.

The song peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, consequently becoming Minaj's highest charting single in the United States to date. It went on to spend eight consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100 chart. The song also peaked within the top ten in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

An accompanying video for the song was directed by Colin Tilley and released on August 19, 2014. Following the video's release, it broke the 24-hour streaming record on Vevo by accumulating 19.6 million views in its first day of release, being surpassed by Taylor Swift's " Bad Blood" in 2015. To further promote the song, Minaj performed it live at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards and also performed it at Fashion Rocks and the iHeartRadio Music Festival. "Anaconda" was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 2015 Grammy Awards. The song was also nominated for two categories at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Best Female Video and Best Hip-Hop Video, winning the latter.

Anaconda (also known as Anacondas) is a series of American horror films that started with Anaconda in 1997. It was followed by one theatrical sequel, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004), two made for television sequels, Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008) and Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009), and a made for television crossover film with the Lake Placid series, titled Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015). Each installment revolves around giant man-eating anacondas and the efforts of various groups of people to capture or destroy the creatures. The fictional plant known as the Blood Orchid and the company Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals as well as the fictitious Murdoch family are repeatedly referenced in the films.