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pythoness en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

See Pythoness.

Meanings

1. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness.
   alt of Pythoness
2. A female soothsayer

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Translations (7)

ru предсказа́тельница (female soothsayer) · ru прорица́тельница (female soothsayer) · bg гадателка (female soothsayer) · ca pitonissa (female soothsayer) · ast pitonisa (female soothsayer) · ru вещу́нья (female soothsayer) · mk га́талка (female soothsayer)

pythoness en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From python + -ess.

Meanings

1. A female python.
   • On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs. 1862, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 56:

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