boa constrictor

1. 1.

   very large boa of tropical America and West Indies

   SynonymsConstrictor constrictor

   Broaderboa

Questions about boa constrictor

What does boa constrictor mean?

boa constrictor means "very large boa of tropical America and West Indies".

What is another word for boa constrictor?

Close synonyms include Constrictor constrictor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boa constrictor a common word?

boa constrictor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.