Bom - What does it mean?
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A large snake found in America.
* 1742 , Charles Owen, An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents
* 1819 , Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
bom
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Bom -Snake'', is another ''Brazilian'' Reptile, call'd ''Bom from the Noise it makes in its Motion.
- It is said to grow to a vast size, and to be perfectly harmless; but the latter assertion is improbable; it is not certainly of the poisonous race of serpents. This is called the bom , because it emits a remarkable noise resembling the sound of that word, when pronounced with a deep hollow voice.