pythoness
A female python.
Noun alt of
- Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness.
- A female soothsayer
Origin
See Pythoness.
Forms
Noun Entry 2
- A female python.
- On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs. - 1862, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume...
Origin
From python + -ess.