Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of the class Reptilia, without developed limbs, with mobile quadrate bone and separate mandibular rami; the snakes or serpents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun plural (Zoöl.) The suborder of reptiles which includes the serpents; called also
Serpentes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun snakes
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Examples
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After all, if Commander Artemus Bishop can outwit the Serpent Empire of Saurian-Five, why should I be intimidated by a crate of squamous Ophidia.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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After all, if Commander Artemus Bishop can outwit the Serpent Empire of Saurian-Five, why should I be intimidated by a crate of squamous Ophidia.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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After all, if Commander Artemus Bishop can outwit the Serpent Empire of Saurian-Five, why should I be intimidated by a crate of squamous Ophidia.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment Greg Cox 2010
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Monstrous Ophidia are mentioned in sober history, e.g. that which delayed the army of
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As a child, he had shrunk from visiting the serpent house at the Zoo; and, later, when he had come to man's estate and had put off childish things, and settled down in real earnest to his self-appointed mission of drinking up all the alcoholic fluid in England, the distaste for Ophidia had lingered.
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Serpents, or Snakes, says the Encyclopaedia, are reptiles of the saurian class Ophidia, characterised by an elongated, cylindrical, limbless, scaly form, and distinguished from lizards by the fact that the halves
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In the museum, Cuvier's classification has been followed, with slight variations; that is to say, the reptiles have been re-divided into four classes: -- the Sauria, or Lizards (in which class some modern naturalists, as Merrem and others, include serpents); the Ophidia, or
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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Monstrous Ophidia are mentioned in sober history, e.g. that which delayed the army of Regulus.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Ophidia Artworkbooklet-1. jpg [738.76 KB] 01 - This Voice Inside. mp3 [12.76 MB]
Fulldls.com 2010
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“Actually,” he said, “this life form is considerably less evolved than either the Serpentes or Ophidia suborders.
Legacy Michael Jan Friedman 1990
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