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Python

noun

Large Old World boas.

A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit.

(Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi.

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... fishes, the reptiles seem fairly modest creatures. The ordinary snake does not lay more than twenty or thirty eggs, and even the python is content to stop at a hundred. The crocodile, though a wicked animal, lays only twenty or thirty; the tortoise as few as two or four; and the turtle does not exceed two hundred. But I am not really interested in eggs—not, at least, in any eggs but birds' ...

— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd

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