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OPHIDIAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

Synonyms:

ophidian; serpent; snake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("ophidian" is a kind of...):

diapsid; diapsid reptile (reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ophidian"):

colubrid; colubrid snake (mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes)

blind snake; worm snake (wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes)

constrictor (any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils)

elapid; elapid snake (any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres)

sea snake (any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom)

viper (venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw)

Holonyms ("ophidian" is a member of...):

Ophidia; Serpentes; suborder Ophidia; suborder Serpentes (snakes)

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