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noun large Old World boas
noun a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
noun (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi
originApparently originating from an analogy between the distention of the arm muscles and the distended belly of a python that has swallowed a large animal.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0