Definitions for pythons

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Spelling: [pahy-thon, -thuh n]

IPA: /ˈpaɪ θɒn, -θən/

Pythons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 150 anagrams from letters in pythons (hnopsty).

Definitions for pythons

noun

1. any of several Old World boa constrictors of the subfamily Pythoninae, often growing to a length of more than 20 feet (6 meters): the Indian python, Python molurus, is endangered.
2. a spirit or demon.
3. a person who is possessed by a spirit and prophesies by its aid.
4. a large dragon who guarded the chasm at Delphi from which prophetic vapors emerged. He was finally killed by Apollo, who established his oracle on the site.

Origin of pythons

1580-90; New Latin; special use of Python¹

Examples for pythons

The old legend told us that the fire-darting Apollo shot his radiant arrows against the pythons and 'dragons of the slime.'

Most pythons have atrophied useless pelvises floating inside their abdomens, not connected to anything.

In its fifth year, a few dozen pythons, measuring three to 10 feet, have been handed over.

You have to step on the necks of the pythons to crush the enemy.

Rabbits and pigeons form the food of the pythons in these gardens.

All other big snakes in India are pythons, which are not venomous.

They are quite as large as the pythons, and quite as formidable.

Lately, the pythons are slithering out of border wildlife areas, and into farmland.

From the arching green branches creepers dangled like pythons.

Thousands of 10-foot pythons roam the Florida Everglades, menacing man and beast alike.