| ophidiophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear of snakes. Origin: G. Ophidion, a small snake, + phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
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| ophidism | Poisoning by a snake. Synonym: ophidism. Origin: G. Ophidion, dim. Of ophis, a serpent (05 Mar 2000) |
| ophiological | Of or pertaining to ophiology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiologist | One versed in the natural history of serpents. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiology | <study> That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents. Origin: Gr. A serpent: cf.F. Ophioloqie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiomancy | Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils. Origin: Gr. A serpent + -mancy: cf. F. Ophiomantie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiomorpha | <zoology> 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. Synonym: Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia. Origin: NL. See Ophiomorphous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiomorphite | <paleontology> An ammonite. Origin: Gr. A serpent + form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiomorphous | Having the form of a serpent. Origin: Gr. A serpent + -morphous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiophagous | <ornithology, zoology> Feeding on serpents; said of certain birds and reptiles. Origin: Gr. A serpent + to eat: cf. F. Ophiophage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiophagus | <zoology> 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. Origin: NL. See Ophiophagous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophite | <chemical> A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; first found in the Pyreness. So called from the coloured spots which give it a mottled appearance. Ophi"ic. Origin: L. Ophites, Gr. (sc), a kind of marble spotted like a serpent: cf. F. Ophite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiuchus | <astronomy> A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands. Synonym: Serpentarius. Origin: L, fr. Gr, lit, holding a serpent; a serpent + to hold. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiura | <zoology> A genus of ophiurioid starfishes. Origin: NL, from Gr. Snake + a tail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ophiuran | <zoology> Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea. One of the Ophiurioidea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |