anaconda

[ an-uh-kon-duh ]

/ ˌæn əˈkɒn də /

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noun

a South American boa, Eunectes murinus, that often grows to a length of more than 25 feet (7.6 meters).

any large boa.

Cards. a variety of poker in which each player is dealt seven cards, discards two, and turns up one of the remaining five before each betting round.

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Origin of anaconda

1760–70; misapplication of a name originally used for a snake of Sri Lanka; earlier anacandaia<Sinhalese henakandayā kind of snake

Words nearby anaconda

anaclisis, anaclitic, anacoenosis, anacoluthia, anacoluthon, anaconda, Anacostia, Anacostia River, anacoustic, Anacreon, Anacreontic

Other definitions for anaconda (2 of 2)

Anaconda

[ an-uh-kon-duh ]

/ ˌæn əˈkɒn də /

noun

a city in SW Montana.

How to use anaconda in a sentence

When Nicki Minaj released her “Anaconda” music video, the blatant booty was meant to spark a conversation.
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Even the more cartoonish way that Minaj is celebrating her ass in the “Anaconda” video may not be wise.
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Minaj dropped her newest single Anaconda on Monday, a Sir Mix-A-Lot sampling ode to her own assets.
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A suffocating silence filled the Sustainer Theater on LSA Anaconda in Iraq.
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This is like telling a man wrestling four alligators not to ignore that 30-foot anaconda that just slipped into the pond.
Will Boehner Play Ball on Syria?|Michael Tomasky|August 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A horse goes down entire, but a cow sticks at the horns, which the anaconda cannot swallow.
Martin Rattler|R.M. Ballantyne
"The trouble with painting to-day is that it has no point of view," cried Rantoul, swallowing an egg in the anaconda fashion.
Murder in Any Degree|Owen Johnson
Anaconda, an-a-kon′da, n. a large South American water-snake of the Python family, closely related to the boa-constrictor.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)|Various
His great anaconda has gathered itself in a circle around the doomed rabbit of rebellion, and if the rabbit swells he's a goner.
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 1|Robert H. Newell
In Montana we have one of the greatest copper mines in America, called the Anaconda.
Seventy Years on the Frontier|Alexander Majors

British Dictionary definitions for anaconda

anaconda

/ (ˌænəˈkɒndə) /

noun

a very large nonvenomous arboreal and semiaquatic snake, Eunectes murinus, of tropical South America, which kills its prey by constriction: family Boidae (boas)

Word Origin for anaconda

C18: probably changed from Sinhalese henakandayā whip snake, from hena lightning + kanda stem; originally referring to a snake of Sri Lanka

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