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Definition of Genus Python
1. Noun. Old World boas.
Group relationships: Pythoninae, Subfamily Pythoninae
Member holonyms: Python Reticulatus, Reticulated Python, Indian Python, Python Molurus, Python Sebae, Rock Python, Rock Snake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Python
Literary usage of Genus Python
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1909)
"The genus python contain- various species, the best known of which is the West
African python, common in menagerie-, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Also the presence of gigantic Snakes of the genus Python is a feature which India
shares with Africa. Poisonous Snakes are numerous, the proportion to ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1830)
"The great serpents of the old continent belong to the genus python (Daud.), and
will be treated of under that title. It is nevertheless true, that Pliny has ..."
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