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PYTHON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large Old World boas
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("python" is a kind of...):
boa (any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "python"):
carpet snake; Morelia spilotes variegatus; Python variegatus (Australian python with a variegated pattern on its back)
Python reticulatus; reticulated python (of southeast Asia and East Indies; the largest snake in the world)
Indian python; Python molurus (very large python of southeast Asia)
Python sebae; rock python; rock snake (very large python of tropical and southern Africa)
amethystine python (a python having the color of amethyst)
Holonyms ("python" is a member of...):
Pythoninae; subfamily Pythoninae (Old World boas: pythons; in some classifications considered a separate family from Boidae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
mythical creature; mythical monster (a monster renowned in folklore and myth)
Domain category:
Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("python" is a kind of...):
disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)
