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Rattlesnake vs Pythons - What's the difference?

rattlesnake | pythons |

As nouns the difference between rattlesnake and pythons

is that rattlesnake is any of various poisonous American snakes, of genera Crotalus and Sistrurus, having a rattle at the end of its tail while pythons is plural of lang=en.

rattlesnake

English

(wikipedia rattlesnake)

Alternative forms

* rattle snake

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various poisonous American snakes, of genera Crotalus'' and ''Sistrurus , having a rattle at the end of its tail.

    • Synonyms

    * rattler (colloquial, especially US )

    pythons

    English

    Etymology 1

    From inflection of python.

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Apparently originating from an analogy between the distention of the arm muscles and the distended belly of a python that has swallowed a large animal.

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (bodybuilding, slang) Large and well-developed muscles in the upper arm.
  • * 2010', Mark Alvisi (quote from a reader), "Mark of a Champion", ''Muscular Development?'' ' 47 (1): 350
    • I read in another magazine about a workout that can put a whole inch on your arms in just one day! Obviously that sounds awesome, because my guns are only 15 inches. I figure I could do this workout every couple months and within a year, I will have the big 20-inch pythons !
    Synonyms
    * (large muscles in the arm) biceps, guns ----