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- English Word Ophidious Definition Ophidian.
- English Word Ophiolatry Definition The worship of serpents.
- English Word Ophiologic Definition Alt. of Ophiological
- English Word Ophiological Definition Of or pertaining to ophiology.
- English Word Ophiologist Definition One versed in the natural history of serpents.
- English Word Ophiology Definition That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents.
- English Word Ophiomancy Definition Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils.
- English Word Ophiomorpha Definition An order of tailless amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the caecilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.
- English Word Ophiomorphite Definition An ammonite.
- English Word Ophiomorphous Definition Having the form of a serpent.
- English Word Ophiophagous Definition Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.
- English Word Ophiophagus Definition A genus of venomous East Indian snakes, which feed on other snakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most deadly of poisonous snakes.
- English Word Ophite Definition Of or pertaining to a serpent.
- English Word Ophite Definition A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance.
- English Word Ophite Definition A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-worshiping sect of the second century.
- English Word Ophiuchus Definition A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands; -- called also Serpentarius.
- English Word Ophiura Definition A genus of ophiurioid starfishes.
- English Word Ophiuran Definition Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.
- English Word Ophiuran Definition One of the Ophiurioidea.
- English Word Ophiurid Definition Same as Ophiurioid.
- English Word Ophiurida Definition Same as Ophiurioidea.
- English Word Ophiurioid Definition Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea.
- English Word Ophiurioid Definition One of the Ophiurioidea.
- English Word Ophiurioidea Definition Alt. of Ophiuroidea
- English Word Ophiuroidea Definition A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; -- called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust. under Brittle star.
- English Word Ophryon Definition The supraorbital point.
- English Word Ophthalmia Definition An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball.
- English Word Ophthalmic Definition Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead.
- English Word Ophthalmite Definition An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea.
- English Word Ophthalmological Definition Of or pertaining to ophthalmology.