Definition of Genus Python

1. Noun. Old World boas.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Python

genus Pygoscelis
genus Pylodictus
genus Pyracantha
genus Pyralis
genus Pyrausta
genus Pyrethrum
genus Pyrocephalus
genus Pyrola
genus Pyrophorus
genus Pyrrhula
genus Pyrrhuloxia
genus Pyrrosia
genus Pyrularia
genus Pyrus
genus Pythium
genus Python (current term)
genus Pyxidanthera
genus Quercus
genus Quiscalus
genus Rachycentron
genus Radiigera
genus Radyera
genus Raffia
genus Raja
genus Ramalina
genus Ramphomicron
genus Rana
genus Ranatra

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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