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# anaconda

«anaconda» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very large snake from South America that lives in and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an anaconda, anacondas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An anaconda is a very large snake from South America that lives in and near rivers and swamps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#m1)

2) The green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world; it is not venomous but kills its prey by squeezing it until it cannot breathe, then swallows it whole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about rainforests and food chains the anaconda is a top predator of the Amazon that eats fish, birds, capybaras and even caimans. In stories and films it is a scary giant snake, though real anacondas almost never attack people. Phrases: green anaconda, giant anaconda, a constrictor snake.

### examples

- An anaconda can stay under water for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#x1)
- The green anaconda lives in the Amazon rainforest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#x2)
- Anacondas squeeze their prey instead of biting with venom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#x3)
- We saw an anaconda sleeping in the warm pool at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#x4)
- An anaconda can swallow an animal bigger than its own head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#x5)
- The anaconda's eyes sit high on its head so it can see above the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#x6)
- In the film the anaconda was much bigger than any real snake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#x7)
- Baby anacondas are born live, not hatched from eggs outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/#x8)

### note

Countable: an anaconda (use «an» because it starts with a vowel sound), two anacondas. Trap: the green anaconda is the heaviest snake, but the reticulated python can be longer. Anacondas are constrictors, not venomous snakes: they squeeze, they do not poison. Myth: films show anacondas hunting people, but this is very rare in real life.

### In the corpora

- [An anaconda kills by squeezing until the prey's blood stops flowing, not by crushing bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/5/)
- [Pythons, boas and anacondas are the giants of the snake world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/0/)
- [The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and the heaviest is the green anaconda of South America.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/2/)
- [Anacondas live mostly in swamps and slow rivers, where the water helps hold up their heavy bodies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anaconda» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anaconda/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.