Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An insect of thisgenus.
- noun A genus of parasitic hymenopterous insects, founded by Fabricius in 1798, belonging to the family Ichneumonidæ, and typical of the subfamily Ophioninæ.
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Examples
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The island is home to a number of mammals such as the Cyprus moufflon (Ovis orientalis ophion), which is a rare type of wild sheep found only on the island of Cyprus.
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But from the subject, upon which it was written, as well as from the treatise of Pherecydes, I should think, that Athothion, or Ethothion, was a mistake for Ath-ophion, a title which more immediately related to that worship, of which the writer treated.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759
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The rare and endemic herbivore, Cyprus moufflon (Ovis aries ophion) persists in the region’s forests.
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