Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One versed in the natural history of serpents; an ophidologist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in the natural history of serpents.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who studies
ophiology .
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Examples
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Starting at one end roll up the dough into a log form, or, channeling your inner ophiologist, into a snake form.
The Succulent Café. Ann Althouse 2009
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Fonda is Charles "Hoppsy" Pike, an ale heir and amateur ophiologist; he�s come from a year up the Amazon and hailed a cruise ship sailing for New York.
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It’s often overt: Cary Grant meets Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby while in the process of trying to secure a million-dollar donation for the museum he works at; worldly Barbara Stanwyck is after timid ophiologist Henry Fonda’s inheritance in The Lady Eve.
The Turn of the Screw (I) Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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It’s often overt: Cary Grant meets Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby while in the process of trying to secure a million-dollar donation for the museum he works at; worldly Barbara Stanwyck is after timid ophiologist Henry Fonda’s inheritance in The Lady Eve.
Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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