[Tupi giboia (boia = serpent).] A Brazilian name of the great BOA, also called boiguaçú.
[1648. W. Piso, De Med. Brasil., III. 41. Boiguaçu sive Iiboya, serpentium omnium facile maximus.]
1712. W. Rogers, Voy., 52. That Monster call’d Jiboya, or the Roebuck-Serpent, which I enquir’d after.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., VII. 225.
1839. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7), XX. 145/1. Boa constrictor, Linn. … is met with in Surinam and Brazil, in woody districts…. It is … commonly known by the name of Jiboya.
