Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An African tree-snake, Bucephalus capensis.
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- noun South Africa A highly
venomous snake found in sub-Saharan Africa,Dispholidus typus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And while the boomslang was a great balled mouse, it was abit flat and it got outrun by the optical ones.
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Most snakes occurring here are not poisonous, and those that are tend to be shy, as in the case of the boomslang (Dispholidus typus), which spends much of its time hunting birds and chameleons in the trees.
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Among the reptilian predators are the boomslang (Dispholidus typus typus), Cape cobra (Naja nivea), puff adder (Bitis arietans), and rock monitor (Varanus exanthematicus albigularis), as well as geckos, lizards, and skinks.
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The most common arboreal snakes are the green mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps) and the boomslang (Dispholidus typus typus).
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She brought in a boomslang as a present and deposited it, still very much alive, on the lounge carpet.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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Near-imperceptible rustles in the thatch sent me into a fever of terror, and on several occasions I convinced myself that a thread of green boomslang was dangling above my bed in the darkness, ready to inflict a fatal bite.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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She brought in a boomslang as a present and deposited it, still very much alive, on the lounge carpet.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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Near-imperceptible rustles in the thatch sent me into a fever of terror, and on several occasions I convinced myself that a thread of green boomslang was dangling above my bed in the darkness, ready to inflict a fatal bite.
Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007
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Its strings — string, rather, for a single strand of fiberop carries much more than the required bandwidth — lay on the floor like a gory boomslang, gobbets of flesh and hair quivering at one end.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Hermione had taken the boomslang skin back in their second year - they had needed it for the Polyjuice Potion - and while Snape had suspected Harry at the time, he had never been able to prove it.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000
reesetee commented on the word boomslang
A venomous, tree-dwelling snake of South Africa.
November 6, 2007
madmouth commented on the word boomslang
the -slang is cognate to 'schlong', which if isn't a key to fun madeupical compounds I don't know what is
February 24, 2014