CONSTRICTOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("constrictor" is a kind of...):

ophidian; serpent; snake (limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "constrictor"):

boa (any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs)

Derivation:

constrict (squeeze or press together)