python• Who wanted to go to the Snake Park in Nairobi and pay two shillings just to see a python?• The voices were cut off as suddenly as the squeaks of a mouse were stifled by the lightninggrip of his python.• Along came a man carrying a large python.• I found myself in front of the reticulated python.• At first it appeared to be empty, but then, on the dappled ground, I saw a rockpython.• A tongue or a mouse's tailretracts within the lipless smile of a greentreepython.• Around the coast and in rivervalleys there are stretches of tropical jungle with pythons and other snakes.
Originpython
(1800-1900)Latin name of a large snake killed by Apollo, from Greek