a large heavy-bodied non-venomous snake occurring throughout the Old World tropics, killing prey by constriction and asphyxiation 蟒蛇,蚺蛇;巨蛇
Family Pythonidae: genera Python (of Asia and Africa), and Morelia and Aspidites (of Australasia) 蟒科:(亚洲和非洲的)蟒属,(澳大拉西亚的)莫雷利亚蟒属和盾蟒属
派生 pythonic adjective 语源
late 16th cent. (in the Greek sense): via Latin from Greek Puthōn, the name of a huge serpent killed by Apollo. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent