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GENUS PYTHON

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Old World boas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Python" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Python"):

Python reticulatus; reticulated python (of southeast Asia and East Indies; the largest snake in the world)

Indian python; Python molurus (very large python of southeast Asia)

Python sebae; rock python; rock snake (very large python of tropical and southern Africa)

Holonyms ("genus Python" is a member of...):

Pythoninae; subfamily Pythoninae (Old World boas: pythons; in some classifications considered a separate family from Boidae)

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