constrictor

Plural: constrictores, constrictors

Noun

• any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils
• That which constricts or tightens:
• A muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage or compresses an organ.
• That which constricts or tightens:
• A muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage or compresses an organ.
• Ellipsis of pharyngeal constrictor (“each of the muscles which constrict the pharynx”).
• That which constricts or tightens:
• Ellipsis of boa constrictor, either the species Boa constrictor or a similar snake that kills by constriction.