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

female soothsayer

• Asturian: pitonisa (ast)
• Bulgarian: гадателка (bg) f (gadatelka)
• Macedonian: га́талка f (gátalka)
• Russian: прорица́тельница (ru) f (proricátelʹnica), вещу́нья (ru) f (veščúnʹja), предсказа́тельница (ru) (predskazátelʹnica)

Etymology 2

From 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.

Translations

female python