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Definition: Anaconda |
AnacondaNoun1. Large arboreal boa of tropical South America. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anaconda" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Anacondas are three species of aquatic boa inhabiting the swamps and rivers of the dense forests of tropical South America.Two species are well-known:
The Eunectes murinus (formerly called Boa murina) differs from Boa by the snout being covered with shields instead of small scales, the inner of the three nasal shields being in contact with that of the other side. The general colour is dark olive-brown, with large oval black spots arranged in two alternating rows along the back, and with smaller white-eyed spots along the sides. The belly is whitish, spotted with black. The anaconda combines an arboreal with an aquatic life, and feeds chiefly upon birds and mammals, mostly during the night. It lies submerged in the water, with only a small part of its head above the surface, waiting for any suitable prey, or it establishes itself upon the branches of a tree which overhangs the water or the track of game.
- The Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus), which has been reported at up to 10 metres in length (although most individuals are considerably smaller) and, while shorter than the longest recorded species, the Reticulated Python, it is considerably heavier and is as a result the largest (i.e. heaviest) snake species currently in existence.
- The Yellow Anaconda (Eunectes notaeus), which reaches a relatively smaller maximum length of 3 metres.
Like almost all boas, anacondas give birth to live young.
Anacondas have a reputation for bad temperament; that plus the massive size of the green species mean that anacondas are comparatively less popular as pets than other boas. See also:
- Anaconda (movie)
- Anaconda, Montana (named for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, whose company town it was)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Anaconda."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ANACONDA | English | Analytical Control and Data Processing | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: AnacondaSynonym: Eunectes murinus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evil doer | Snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Anaconda |
| Non-English Usage: "Anaconda" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (anaconda), French (anaconda), Italian (anaconda), Manx (anaconda ), Portuguese (anaconda), Spanish (anaconda). |
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Screenplays | Living with your folksliving with your folksthe beginning of the enddrab, dead yesterdays shutting out beautiful tomorrowshideous, stumbling footsteps creaking along the misty corridors of timeand in those corridors I see figuresstraaange figuresweeeird figures: Steel 186, Anaconda 74, American Can 138. (Animal Crackers; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind) | |
Lyrics | My anaconda don't want none (Baby Got Back; performing artist: SIR MIX-A-LOT) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Anaconda (1954) Angela Anaconda (1999) | |
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 | View of the foundry department breaker house. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1979. (Reproduction Number: HAER, MONT, 12-ANAC.V,1-4) The copper mining town of Anaconda is known for the manufacture and sale of hardware, machinery, and supplies for mining companies. It is also known for its precast building parts and ornaments, such as storefronts and lampposts, made from recycled scrap iron. The Anaconda Reduction Department's breaker house shown here was built around 1900 to break down scrap iron before it was shipped to the furnace for melting and eventual reuse. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Smelters at base of Anaconda Hill, Butte Mont., richest mining city in the U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Anaconda. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Smelter, Anaconda copper mine. Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Anaconda, Montana (vicinity). Abandoned gas station. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Anaconda smelter, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Great Falls, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Wire bars. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Dan Rather | Well, in the same way that the U.S. military has names for operations such as Operation Desert Storm, Anaconda, the Israeli military has their version of that. And they do call this, you know, Operation Protective Wall. |
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| "Anaconda" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Anaconda" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Anaconda, MT |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "anaconda": Anaconda-Deer Lodge County. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "anaconda"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | anakonda. (various references) | |
Arabic | الأناكندة أفعى ضخمة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | юж.-ам. боа, анаконда. (various references) | |
Czech | anakonda. (various references) | |
Dutch | anaconda. (various references) | |
Esperanto | anakondo. (various references) | |
French | anaconda. (various references) | |
German | Anakonda. (various references) | |
Greek | βοάσ (boa), ευνήκτης ο μυγοθήρας, ανακόνδασ, ανακόνδας. (various references) | |
Hungarian | anakonda. (various references) | |
Italian | anaconda. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蠎 (boa constrictor, python). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うわばみ (boa constrictor, python). (various references) | |
Manx | anaconda. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anacondaay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anaconda, sucuri, qualquer serpente que esmaga a presa, jibóia (boa constrictor). (various references) | |
Russian | анаконда. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | anakonda. (various references) | |
Spanish | anaconda. (various references) | |
Sranan | aboma. (various references) | |
Swedish | anakonda. (various references) | |
Turkish | anakonda, dev piton. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | анаконда. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | con boa rắn cuộn mồi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Eunectes spp.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anaconda": anacondas. (additional references) | |
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"Anaconda" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abacada, abaconian, anacanda, anacoda, anacomp, Anakena, andaconda, Narcondam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "anaconda" (pronounced a'nukÄ"ndu) |
| 5 | -k Ä" n d u | Golconda. |
| 3 | -n d u | agenda, hacienda, Honda, memoranda, panda, propaganda, referenda, rotunda, veranda. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-n-n-o" | |
-3 letters: ancon, canna, canon, donna. | |
-4 letters: anna, anoa, anon, coda, conn, dona, naan, nada, nana, nona. | |
-5 letters: ado, ana, and, cad, can, cod, con, doc, don, nan, nod, oca. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-d-n-n-o" | |
+1 letter: anacondas. | |
+4 letters: nonadiabatic, vacationland. | |
+5 letters: vacationlands. | |
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