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jiboya

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    Borrowed from Portuguese jiboia, borrowed from Old Tupi îyboîa, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *jɨβoj.

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    jiboya (plural jiboyas)

    1. (uncommon) The boa constrictor.
      • 1820, Richard Paul Jodrell, Philology on the English Language:
        [] 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.
      • 1886, Georg Hartwig, The Tropical World: Aspects of Man and Nature in the Equatorial Regions of the Globe, page 301:
        Prince Maximilian of Neu Wied tells us that the experienced hunter laughs when asked whether the jiboya attacks and devours man.
      • 2011, Carlos Prieto, The Adventures of a Cello: Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue, University of Texas Press (→ISBN)
        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.