boh or (bo hor)

A variety of reedbuck of western Afri IMG:content-2276.png:[blocks in formation] Boidæ (bō'idē), pl. [NL., A Bohor (Cervicapra boh or). venomous ophidian reptiles, with two mobile hooks or spurs, the rudiments of hind legs, near the anus. The name has been adopted with varying limits, and latterly generally restricted to American species: (1) Colubrine snakes with the belly covered with narrow, elongate shields or scales, nearly resembling those of the back, and with spur-like rudimentary legs on each side of the vent. It included the Boidæ as well as Python ide, Char in ide, and Tortricidæ of recent ophi ologists. (2) Eurystomatous serpents with rudiments of posterior extremities. It included the Boidæ, Pythonidæ, and Charinidæ. (3) Eurystomatous serpents with rudimentary posterior appendages, coronoid bone in lower jaw, no no supraorbital, but postorbital, bones in cranium, and with teeth developed in the premaxillary. In limited sense there are still many species peculiar to the warmer regions of America, and among them are some of gigantic size, such as the boa-constrictor and anaconda, Eunectes murinus. They sometimes attack animals of a large size and kill them by constriction round the body. See cuts under boa and python.