(pī′thon, -thən) noun
1. A large, non-venomous serpent (genus Python) that crushes its prey in its folds.
2. Any non-venomous serpent related to the boas.
3. A soothsayer or soothsaying spirit: from the tradition that the Python delivered oracles at Delphi; also, a ventriloquist. [<L <Gk. Pythōn Python <Pytho. See PYTHIAN.]
PYTHON (From 3 to 32 feet in length)

(pī′thon, -thən)
In Greek mythology, a monstrous serpent which haunted the caves of Parnassus and was killed by Apollo near Delphi.