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Citations:bom

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English citations of bom

a large snake found in the Americas

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  • 1742, Charles Owen, An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents
    The Bom-Snake, is another Brazilian Reptile, call'd Bom from the Noise it makes in its Motion.
  • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
    It is said to grow to a vast size, and to be perfectly harmless; but the latter assertion is improbable; it is not certainly of the poisonous race of serpents. This is called the bom, because it emits a remarkable noise resembling the sound of that word, when pronounced with a deep hollow voice.
  • 2013(?), John McGreal, In The Way of It →ISBN, page 34:
    On a school trip to The Zoo he found winged Zimbs; Apes and Sais; snakes like small Asps, long Boms and Kraits; Bears like Ted big and small; []

Occitan citations of bom

  • 1995, Florian Vernet, On't a passat ma planeta, Toulouse: IEO Edicions, published 2014, →ISBN, page 7:
    Ne siáu totjorn a me pausar aquelei questions metafisicas sus l'èstre e lo paréisser que Sbòing, Crac, Bom, Wzzz, Pataflòu, me pausi.
    (please add an English translation of this quotation)