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Snakes vs Pythons - What's the difference?

snakes | pythons |

As nouns the difference between snakes and pythons

is that snakes is plural of lang=en while pythons is plural of lang=en.

As a verb snakes

is third-person singular of snake.

snakes

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (snake)
    • ''The road snakes through the mountains.

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    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 ----