pythoness

See also: Pythoness

English

Etymology 1

See Pythoness.

Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness
  2. A female soothsayer
Translations
Pythoness — see Pythoness

Etymology 2

python +‎ -ess

Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

  1. 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.
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