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- English Word Opetide Definition The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
- English Word Ophelic Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a substance (called ophelic acid) extracted from a plant (Ophelia) of the Gentian family as a bitter yellowish sirup, used in India as a febrifuge and tonic.
- English Word Ophicleide Definition A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas.
- English Word Ophidia Definition The order of reptiles which includes the serpents.
- English Word Ophidia Definition of Ophidion
- English Word Ophidian Definition One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.
- English Word Ophidian Definition Of or pertaining to the Ophidia; belonging to serpents.
- English Word Ophidioid Definition Of or pertaining to the Ophidiidae, a family of fishes which includes many slender species.
- English Word Ophidioid Definition One of the Ophidiidae.
- English Word Ophidion Definition The typical genus of ophidioid fishes. [Written also Ophidium.] See Illust. under Ophidioid.
- 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.