noun

• A semiaquatic snake of the boa family that may grow to a great size, native to tropical South America.

  Genus Eunectes, family Boidae: several species

  ‘This reptile family includes such notable snakes as anacondas, pythons, and boa constrictors, all big animals notorious for their ability to tackle prey even larger than themselves.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘You got the python, Larry, the anaconda and the boa constrictor.’
  • ‘They are also preyed upon by mammalian predators such as cats, and by snakes such as boas and anacondas.’
  • ‘Snakes were initially heavily muscled, swamp-based creatures much like today's anacondas of South America.’
  • ‘The bite of a very large nonpoisonous snake, like a twenty-foot anaconda or python, may be considered dangerous.’
  • ‘While other snakes can grow longer, they cannot match the anaconda's length and bulk.’
  • ‘Jaguars may have been their most important predators, but some are probably killed by anacondas and caimans.’
  • ‘Even a fearsome spectacled caiman is unable to escape an anaconda's fatal embrace.’
  • ‘You know the python from Africa and Asia, the anaconda from South America.’
  • ‘Watch as a female anaconda in Venezuela hunts down a capybara - the world's largest rodent - and swallows her meal whole.’
  • ‘While accessible to surrounding tribes, the area remains largely untouched because of the belief that a giant anaconda guards its shores.’
  • ‘I knew, of course, that seasnakes could swim and anacondas lurked the backwaters of the Amazon, but I was unprepared for how fast tiny green snakes could get from a riverbank to us.’
  • ‘Over 60 species can be seen ranging from giant cockroaches to crocodiles and anacondas.’
  • ‘Actually, anacondas are slow, shy reptiles, which are found in swamps of South America.’
  • ‘That man handled everything from anacondas to zebras.’
  • ‘Can we look for lions and anacondas to take pictures of?’
  • ‘More recently, two giant anacondas vanished from their cages on the very day a major police operation named after them commenced and were just as mysteriously repatriated after a nationwide alarm was raised.’
  • ‘Despite being set in the jungles of Borneo, where anacondas are not known to slither, the film has a host of giant computer-animated specimens, but it doesn't think of much to do with them.’
  • ‘I observe three committed young men strangling their instruments as if wrestling with man-eating anacondas.’
  • ‘The skin of an anaconda stretches across most of the ceiling.’