jiboya
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The boa constrictor.
Example Sentences
- "[…] the largest animal of this kind, which has been brought into Europe, is but thirty-six feet long : the most usual length however of the jiboya is about twenty feet, and the thickness in proportion."
- "Prince Maximilian of Neu Wied tells us that the experienced hunter laughs when asked whether the jiboya attacks and devours man."
- "The Indians kept them in huge wooden boxes, and for a small tip, five or six boys would take out the gigantic sucuris, anacondas that live in water, and then some jiboyas of a similar size, but that are primarily land creatures."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
jiboyas (plural)
giboia (alternative)
giboya (alternative)
jeboya (alternative)
jiboia (alternative)