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Definition of Boidae
1. Noun. Boas and pythons.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Family
Group relationships: Ophidia, Serpentes, Suborder Ophidia, Suborder Serpentes
Member holonyms: Boa, Charina, Genus Charina, Genus Lichanura, Lichanura, Eunectes, Genus Eunectes, Pythoninae, Subfamily Pythoninae
Medical Definition of Boidae
1. A family of snakes comprising the boas, anacondas, and pythons. They occupy a variety of habitats through the tropics and subtropics and are arboreal, aquatic or fossorial (burrowing). Some are oviparous, others ovoviviparous. Contrary to popular opinion, they do not crush the bones of their victims: their coils exert enough pressure to stop a prey's breathing, thus suffocating it. There are five subfamilies: boinae, bolyerinae, erycinae, pythoninae, and tropidophiinae. (goin, goin, and zug, introduction to herpetology, 3d ed, p315-320) (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boidae
Literary usage of Boidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals by Frank Evers Beddard (1905)
"The boidae are, as the names suggests, the Boa constrictor and its allies, ...
Allied to the boidae are several families of small and burrowing snakes, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In boidae both lungs arc large, although unequal: the left or more dorsally placed
one being the larger. ..."
3. Serpientes de Costa Rica: Distribución, taxonomía e historia natural= snakes by Alejandro Solórzano L. (2004)
"Tipos de escamas en las serpientes de la familia boidae. Figure 9. ... in snakes
of the family boidae. ..."
4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"Eleven species of the family boidae, ... Metabolism, energetics, and thermoregulation
during brooding of snakes of the genus Python (Reptilia, boidae). ..."
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