"grootslang" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Afrikaans grootslang (“great snake”), from groot (“great, big”) + slang (“snake”).",
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          "name": "Cryptozoology",
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          "ref": "2016, Rocco Ryg, The Genocide Gene: The Onryo Saga, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Two more grootslangs appeared on either side of their leader, both larger and more frightening than the one he had made in the museum.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, H. K. Varian, The Changer War, →ISBN:",
          "text": "While he watched, one of the selkies drenched one of Sakura's grootslangs with a water shield, much like the one Fiona had used with Ray only days earlier. Had it been only days earlier? It felt like a lifetime ago. The water hit the grootslang right in the face.",
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        "A South African cryptid with the head of an elephant and the body of a snake, which reputedly eats elephants and hoards diamonds; one particular one (the Grootslang) is reputed to live in a cave in South Africa connected to the sea."
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          "ref": "2016, Rocco Ryg, The Genocide Gene: The Onryo Saga, →ISBN:",
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          "text": "While he watched, one of the selkies drenched one of Sakura's grootslangs with a water shield, much like the one Fiona had used with Ray only days earlier. Had it been only days earlier? It felt like a lifetime ago. The water hit the grootslang right in the face.",
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