Boidae (Noun)
Meaning
Boas and pythons.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Boidae is a family of non-venomous snakes commonly referred to as boas, found throughout the Americas and Madagascar.
- The Boidae family consists of boas and pythons, large, heavy-bodied snakes with a distinctive heat-sensing pit.
- Some scientists propose merging certain subfamilies of Boidae and Pythonidae into one group due to their shared characteristics.
- Pythons, a part of the Boidae family in some classifications, are not as closely related to boas as previously thought.
- Researchers reclassified Boidae to restrict the family to American and tropical boas, separating pythons into their own distinct family.