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OPHIDIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
Synonyms:
Classified under:
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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