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  • noun Plural form of boomslang.

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Examples

  • Their activities upset the natural status quo, and we awoke one morning to find a pair of adult boomslangs Afrikaans for tree snake—“boo-um-slung”, the female brown, the male pea green, looped in a bow at the top of the syringa tree in the driveway.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Their activities upset the natural status quo, and we awoke one morning to find a pair of adult boomslangs Afrikaans for tree snake—“boo-um-slung”, the female brown, the male pea green, looped in a bow at the top of the syringa tree in the driveway.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Despite the transparent lunacy of launching a homemade craft on a crocodile-inhabited river and sailing by flashlight to a jungle-covered sandbank populated exclusively by mambas, boomslangs, and baboon spiders, Merina was fully onboard from the start.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Despite the transparent lunacy of launching a homemade craft on a crocodile-inhabited river and sailing by flashlight to a jungle-covered sandbank populated exclusively by mambas, boomslangs, and baboon spiders, Merina was fully onboard from the start.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Five blasts and several muddy reloadings later, the boomslangs exploded out of the sky in an unholy confetti of gristle and bits of bark, twig, and berries.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Five blasts and several muddy reloadings later, the boomslangs exploded out of the sky in an unholy confetti of gristle and bits of bark, twig, and berries.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • His room-mates will include deadly puff adders, snouted cobras, boomslangs and green and black mambas.

    Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010

  • His room-mates will include deadly puff adders, snouted cobras, boomslangs and green and black mambas.

    Today.Az 2010

  • His room-mates will include deadly puff adders, snouted cobras, boomslangs and green and black mambas.

    Today.Az 2010

  • The snakes will include snouted cobras, green and black mambas, deadly puff adders and boomslangs.

    Analysis 2010

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