anaconda

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From New Latin anacandaia (“python”) [originally referring to a species of constrictor found in Sri Lanka, from Sinhalese හෙනකඳයා (henakaⁿdayā, “whip snake”), from හෙන (hena, “lightning, thunderbolt”) + කඳ (kaⁿda, “stem, trunk, body”) or from Tamil ஆனைக்கொன்றான் (āṉaikkoṉṟāṉ, “having killed an elephant”), from ஆனை (āṉai, “elephant”) + கொன்றான் (koṉṟāṉ, “having killed”).

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• IPA^(key): /ˌænəˈkɒndə/

anaconda (countable and uncountable, plural anacondas)

1. (countable) Any large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. [from 19th c.]
2. (countable, in particular) The green anaconda, Eunectes murinus.
3. (countable, slang, vulgar, by extension) 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^[1], Signet, published 2002, →ISBN:

     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!‎^[2], iUniverse, →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 quotations using this term, see Citations:anaconda.
4. (uncountable) A pattern morph of hognose snake that results in fewer but larger spots and often a completely black belly.
   1. (countable) A hognose snake of this morph.

• The pattern morph of hognose snake is usually shortened to conda to avoid confusion with the members of the genus Eunectes.

• (penis): see also Thesaurus:macropenis.

• anaconda mortgage
• yellow anaconda

anaconda

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

• (card game): pass the trash

• “anaconda”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “anaconda”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “anaconda” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.

• 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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.nəˈkon.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.naˈkon.da]

anaconda f (plural anacondes)

1. anaconda

• “anaconda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “anaconda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “anaconda” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Borrowed from English anaconda.

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.naːˈkɔn.daː/

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• Hyphenation: ana‧con‧da

anaconda f or m (plural anaconda's)

1. anaconda, constrictor of the genus Eunectes

• IPA^(key): /a.na.kɔ̃.da/

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anaconda m (plural anacondas)

1. anaconda

• IPA^(key): /a.naˈkon.da/
• Rhymes: -onda
• Hyphenation: a‧na‧cón‧da

anaconda f (plural anaconde)

1. (snake) anaconda

Borrowed from English anaconda.

• Hyphenation: a‧na‧con‧da

anaconda f (plural anacondas)

1. synonym of sucuri

• “anaconda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from French anaconda.

anaconda f (plural anaconde)

1. anaconda

Borrowed from English anaconda.

• IPA^(key): /anaˈkonda/ [a.naˈkõn̪.d̪a]

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• Rhymes: -onda
• Syllabification: a‧na‧con‧da

anaconda f (plural anacondas)

1. anaconda
2. (by extension, slang, vulgar) a large penis

• “anaconda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024