Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of coleopterous insects, typical of the family Pythidæ, comprising forms with very depressed body, striate elytra, and one-toothed mandibles.
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Examples
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You take Aresa's entire supply of altered thale-cress, Kezic's colonies of trained bees, Rigg's bomb-eating mushrooms, and every other pytho-Frankensteins we haven't yet heard about or still inside petri dishes unspliced and awaiting reconstruction.
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You take Aresa's entire supply of altered thale-cress, Kezic's colonies of trained bees, Rigg's bomb-eating mushrooms, and every other pytho-Frankensteins we haven't yet heard about or still inside petri dishes unspliced and awaiting reconstruction.
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In other words, pytho is the miasma or mist from the evaporation of the overflow, dried up by the sun.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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This Hebrew word was equivalent to the pytho of the Greeks, and was used to denote both the person and the spirit which possessed him (Lev.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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