Definition of Pythoninae

1. Noun. Old World boas: pythons; in some classifications considered a separate family from Boidae.

Exact synonyms: Subfamily Pythoninae
Generic synonyms: Reptile Family
Group relationships: Boidae, Family Boidae
Member holonyms: Python, Genus Python

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pythoninae

Pythian
Pythian Apollo
Pythian Games
Pythias
Pythium debaryanum
Pythius
Python
Python molurus
Python reticulatus
Python sebae
Python variegatus
Pythonesque
Pythoness
Pythonesses
Pythonidae
Pythoninae
Pyu
Pyxidanthera
Pyxidanthera barbulata
Pyxis
Pœuilly
Pärnu
Pædion
Pæonia
Père David's deer
Père David's deers
Pécs
Périgord pie
Périgord pies
Pétainism

Literary usage of Pythoninae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"pythoninae.—With a pair of supra-orbital bones, intercalated between the ... The pythoninae, comprising about twenty species, are restricted to the ..."

2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"... and pythoninae. J. Herp. 9:1-79. McDowell, SB 1979. A catalogue of snakes of New Guinea and the Solomons, with special reference to those in the Bernice ..."

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