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[boh-uh] / ˈboʊ ə /


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That experience was more than assuaged by Cortés and by the presence of magnificent trans actress Paula Dinamarca, who portrays the clan’s seen-it-all matriarch, Madame Boa.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

Raimundo Barbosa, who farms cassava and fruit near the town of Boa Esperança outside Santarém in the southeastern Amazon, says when the forest is cleared "the environment is destroyed".

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

Boa constrictors and pythons are “strikers,” he notes.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 4, 2024

At the camp I met octogenarian Boa Senior, the last speaker of Bo and a keeper of many songs.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023

Boa constrictors, Komodo dragons, croc­odiles, piranhas, ostriches, wolves, lynx, wallabies, manatees, porcupines, orangutans, wild boar—that’s the sort of rainfall you could expect on your umbrella.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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