Anaconda, city, United States
Anaconda (ănəkŏn`də), city (1990 pop. 10,278), seat of Deer Lodge co., SW Mont.; inc. 1887. Marcus Daly Daly, Marcus, 1841–1900, American copper magnate, b. Ireland. He went to New York City at 15 and later moved to California, where he worked as a miner. He was employed by the "silver kings," J. G. Fair and J. W. Mackay, at the Comstock Lode...... Click the link for more information. chose this place (1883) for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's processing operations, and in the 1890s tried unsuccessfully to make it Montana's capital. The city's famed high-stacked smelter was closed in 1980 as the copper industry declined. Tourism, spurred by a Jack Nicklaus–designed golf course (1997), is now important.
anaconda, in zoology
anaconda: see boa boa (bō`ə), name for live-bearing constrictor snakes of the family Boidae, found mostly in the Americas...... Click the link for more information. .
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Giant anaconda (Eunectes murinus).
(credit: © Z. Leszczynski/Animals Animals)
anaconda
a very large nonvenomous arboreal and semiaquatic snake, Eunectes murinus, of tropical South America, which kills its prey by constriction: family Boidae (boas)
anaconda [‚an·ə′kän·də]
(vertebrate zoology)
Eunectes murinus.The largest living snake, an arboreal-aquatic member of the boa family (Boidae).
anaconda
South American boa constrictor; longest and deadliest of its kind. [Zoology: NCE, 317]
See : Deadliness
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