pythoness
English
Etymology 1
See Pythoness.
Noun
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- Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness.
- A female soothsayer
Translations
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Etymology 2
From python + -essCategory:English terms suffixed with -ess (female)#PYTHONESS.
Noun
pythoness (plural pythonesses)Category:English lemmas#PYTHONESSCategory:English nouns#PYTHONESSCategory:English countable nouns#PYTHONESSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PYTHONESSCategory:Pages with entries#PYTHONESSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PYTHONESS
- A female python.
- 1862, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 56:
- On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.Category:English terms with quotations#PYTHONESS