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py·thon (pī′t̸hän′, -t̸hən)

noun

  1. Gr. Myth. an enormous serpent that lurks in the cave of Mount Parnassus and is slain by Apollo
  2. any of a genus (Python, family Boidae) of very large, nonvenomous snakes of Asia, Africa, and Australia, that squeeze their prey to death
  3. popularly any large snake that squeezes its prey to death

Etymology: L < Gr Pythōn < Pythō: see Pythian

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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