constrictor

/kuhn-strik-ter/US // kənˈstrɪk tər //UK // (kənˈstrɪktə) //

缢杀者,拘束者,缢死者,缢死的人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a snake that kills its prey by coiling tightly around it, causing suffocation.
- : Anatomy. a muscle that constricts a hollow part of the body, as the pharynx.
- : a person or thing that constricts.

Dorian had a unique talent for striking glamorous and artistic attitudes while clutching a live boa constrictor.
The shovel-headed constrictor suddenly seems all mouth, as it stretches its jaws wide.
Mack, according to reports, used his winnings to fill his home with Rottweilers, tarantulas, and a boa constrictor.
He was as successful as he was brave, and he had the great good luck to meet a tiger, a young hippopotamus, and a boa constrictor.
It moves with great rapidity, and in general form and size it resembles C. constrictor.
The pall of the black squalor had been tightening about the girl's heart like an impalpable constrictor and almost strangling it.
Anaconda, an-a-kon′da, n. a large South American water-snake of the Python family, closely related to the boa-constrictor.
Coiled around him like a large boa-constrictor, reaching to his very throat,——But I sicken as I write!