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"Meanwhile, the zoo\u2019s Burmese python only eats two whole rabbits per month due to how long its digestion cycle takes to break down the food. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 27 May 2022",
"According to Kalil, the most humane way to kill a python is with a shot to the brain or blunt-force trauma to the head. \u2014 Rebecca Renner, Outside Online , 14 May 2020",
"Another $1,500 prize is open in both categories for the longest python caught with smaller cash prizes for second place. \u2014 Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel , 16 June 2022",
"Workers cooking burgers and tater tots in a Sonic fast-food kitchen fled after discovering a nonvenomous ball python hiding behind the deep fryer. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 31 May 2022",
"Carnivores also include reptiles like the Burmese python and the gharial, birds like vultures and roseate spoonbills, and some cuter mammals like otters and seals. \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 26 May 2022",
"What if one of those animals was an elephant or a python ? \u2014 Zachary Smith, cleveland , 27 May 2022",
"The largest snake found in the house was a 14-foot Burmese python , according to officials. \u2014 Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News , 13 Apr. 2022",
"In one corner was a female Burmese python nearly 14 feet long, an imposing specimen of the invasive population of predatory snakes inhabiting South Florida's wild lands for over three decades now. \u2014 Ed Killer, USA TODAY , 14 Mar. 2022"
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": a musical scale with its intervals regulated by mathematical ratios rather than by consonances":[]
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"-r\u0259\u0307st"
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": a family of fungi (order Peronosporales) having sporangia usually borne successively and singly at the tips of branching sporangiophores which differ little if any from assimilative hyphae \u2014 see phytophthora , pythium":[]
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": a genus of fungi (family Pythiaceae ) comprising a single species ( P. citrophthora ) that causes brown rot of citrus fruits and gummosis of citrus and other fruits and is now usually included in Phytophthora":[]
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": a friend of Damon condemned to death by Dionysius of Syracuse":[]
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"1542, in the meaning defined above":""
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": the 4-year period between celebrations of the Pythian games in ancient Greece":[]
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"pronounciation":[
"-\u0259d",
"\u02c8pi-th\u0113-\u02ccad"
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"Greek Pythia , the Pythian games, from neuter plural of pythios":""
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"1603, in the meaning defined above":""
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": dactylic hexameter":[]
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": a family comprising nonvenomous snakes closely related to the boas but having a supraorbital bone and usually teeth on the premaxilla and the subcaudal scales mostly in two rows, including Python and closely related genera, and being now usually treated as a subfamily of Boidae":[]
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"\u02c8p\u012bth\u0259n\u0259\u0307d"
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": an epodic distich in Greek and Latin prosody composed of a Pythian verse and an iambic dimeter or trimeter":[]
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"\u02ccpith\u0113\u02c8ambik",
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