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Boa   /bˈoʊə/   Listen
noun
Boa  n.  (pl. boas)  
1.
(Zool.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (Boa imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (Boa eques). Note: The name is also applied to related genera; as, the dog-headed boa (Xiphosoma caninum).
2.
A long, round fur tippet; so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.





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"Boa" Quotes from Famous Books



... at present taking their periodical doze like a great boa constrictor. The engineer—a native of Philadelphia—has gone home for the holidays, and will not return till October or November, when the cane harvest begins and his indispensable services will be required. He has unscrewed all the ...
— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman
... great python[1] (the "boa," as it is commonly designated by Europeans, the "anaconda" of Eastern story), which is supposed to crush the bones of an elephant, and to swallow the tiger, is found, though not of so portentous dimensions, in the cinnamon ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... surmised that serpents have no sense of taste, because the boa-constrictor in the Zoological Gardens swallowed his blanket. Chemistry may, however, assist us in solving the mystery, and induce us to draw quite an opposite conclusion from the curious circumstance alluded to. May not the mistake of the serpent be attributed to the marvellous ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419, New Series, January 10, 1852 • Various
... celebrated watch-dog of Hell. It completely filled their wide expanse. Who but Pluto could have viewed without horror that enormous body covered with shaggy spikes, those frightful paws clothed with claws of steel, that tail like a boa constrictor, those fiery eyes that blazed like the blood-red lamps in a pharos, and those three forky tongues, round each of which were entwined a vigorous family of ...
— The Infernal Marriage • Benjamin Disraeli
... though the wind blew from the storm quarter, and Applehead sniffed it and made predictions, and Compadre went with his remnant of tail ruffed like a feather boa. Immediately after supper Luck attached his new hose to the tank faucet and developed the corral scenes which he had taken, with the thin youth taking his first lesson in the dark room. The thin youth, who said his name was Bill ...
— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower


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