anaconda

See also: Anaconda

Contents

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From New Latin anacandaia (“python”) [originally referring to a species of constrictor found in Sri Lanka], from Sinhalese හෙනකඳයා (henakan̆dayā, “whip snake”) from හෙන (hena, “lightning, thunderbolt”) +‎ කඳ (kan̆da, “stem, trunk, body”).

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Noun

a green anaconda (Eunectes murinus)

anaconda (plural anacondas)

1. Any of various large nonvenomous snakes of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. Their length can grow to as much as 5 m (15 ft).
2. (by extension, slang, vulgar) A large penis.
   • 1992, Sir Mix-a-Lot, "Baby Got Back", Mack Daddy:

     My anaconda don't want none / Unless you got buns, hon

   • 2000, Eric Jerome Dickey, Liar's Game, Signet (2002), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Womack went into the bedroom and checked on his two boys. When I headed to the bathroom to drain my anaconda, I caught a profile of him standing in the doorway, smiling down on the little rascals.

   • 2006, Christopher Darrick Odom, Visa Versa: Black Men Suffer in the Dating Game Too!, iUniverse (2006), →ISBN, page xi:

     I have chased after white women to find they only wanted to dance with my anaconda and weren't interested in me as a partner.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:anaconda.

Synonyms

• (penis): see also Thesaurus:macropenis.

Derived terms

• anaconda mortgage

Translations

any of various large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes

• Arabic: أَنَاكُنْدَة‎ f (ʾanakonda)
• Belarusian: анако́нда f (anakónda)
• Borôro: jure
• Bulgarian: анако́нда (bg) f (anakónda)
• Catalan: anaconda f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安納康達, 安纳康达 (ānnàkāngdá), 大水蟒 (dàshuǐmǎng), 森蚺 (zh) (sēnrán)

• Czech: anakonda f
• Danish: anakonda c
• Dutch: anaconda (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: anakondo
• Finnish: anakonda (fi)
• French: anaconda (fr) m
• German: Anakonda (de) f
• Greek: ανακόντα (el) f (anakónta)
• Ido: anakondo (io)
• Interlingue: anaconda
• Irish: anacanda m

• Italian: anaconda (it) f
• Japanese: アナコンダ (ja) (anakonda)
• Korean: 아나콘다 (ko) (anakonda)
• Persian: آناکوندا‎ (ânâkondâ)
• Polish: anakonda (pl) f
• Portuguese: anaconda (pt), sucuri
• Russian: анако́нда (ru) f (anakónda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анаконда f

  Roman: anakonda (sh) f

• Spanish: anaconda
• Sranan Tongo: aboma
• Swedish: anakonda (sv) c
• Tagalog: anakonda
• Thai: อนาคอนดา (à-naa-kɔn-dâa)
• Turkish: anakonda (tr)
• Ukrainian: анако́нда f (anakónda)
• Welsh: neidr (cy) f

Proper noun

anaconda

1. (card games) A particular variety of stud poker.

Synonyms

• (card game): pass the trash

References

• “anaconda” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
• “anaconda” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
• “anaconda” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2019.

Further reading

• Richard Boyle (27 July 2008), ““The Anaconda of Ceylon”: Derivations and the myths”, in The Sunday Times, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Wijeya Newspapers Ltd., retrieved 18 July 2018, Sunday Times Plus

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English anaconda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.naːˈkɔn.daː/

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• Hyphenation: aca‧con‧da

Noun

anaconda f or m (plural anaconda's)

1. anaconda, constrictor of the genus Eunectes.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.na.kɔ̃.da/

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Noun

anaconda m (plural anacondas)

1. anaconda

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -onda

Noun

anaconda f (plural anaconde)

1. (snake) anaconda

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Portuguese

Noun

anaconda f (plural anacondas)

1. anaconda

Synonyms

• sucuri

Further reading

• “anaconda” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anaˈkonda/, [anaˈkõn̪d̪a]

Noun

anaconda f (plural anacondas)

1. anaconda

Further reading

• “anaconda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.