Pythonnoun
A type of large constricting snake.
Pythonnoun
penis
Pythonnoun
Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidæ. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.
Pythonnoun
A diviner by spirits.
Pythonnoun
large Old World boas
Pythonnoun
a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
Pythonnoun
(Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi
Pythonnoun
a large heavy-bodied non-venomous snake occurring throughout the Old World tropics, killing prey by constriction and asphyxiation.
Pythonnoun
a high-level general-purpose programming language.
Rubynoun
A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
Rubynoun
(obsolete) A red spinel.
Rubynoun
A deep red colour.
Rubynoun
(heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
Rubynoun
The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
Rubynoun
A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
Rubynoun
A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
Rubynoun
A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.
Rubyadjective
Of a deep red colour.
Rubyverb
To make red; to redden.
Rubynoun
A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
Rubynoun
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
Rubynoun
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
Rubynoun
See Agate, n., 2.
Rubynoun
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolæma. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
Rubyadjective
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
Rubyverb
To make red; to redden.
Rubynoun
a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
Rubynoun
a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
Rubynoun
a deep and vivid red
Rubyadjective
having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
Rubynoun
a precious stone consisting of corundum in colour varieties varying from deep crimson or purple to pale rose
Rubynoun
an intense purplish-red colour
Rubynoun
an old type size equal to 51/2 points.
Ruby
A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapphires.