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A name (a) originally applied (by English writers) to a ‘very large and terrible snake’ of Sri Lanka (? Python reticulatus, or P. molurus Gray)…
Any of various pythons frequenting rocky areas, esp. the Indian python, Python molurus. Cf. rock python, n.