Definition of Ophiuras

1. ophiura [n] - See also: ophiura

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiuras

ophiomancy
ophiomorpha
ophiomorphite
ophiomorphites
ophiomorphous
ophiophagous
ophiophagus
ophiophagy
ophite
ophites
ophitic
ophiuchus
ophiura
ophiuran
ophiurans
ophiuras (current term)
ophiurid
ophiurida
ophiurids
ophiurioid
ophiurioids
ophiuroid
ophiuroidea
ophiuroids
ophritis
ophryitis
ophryogenes
ophryon
ophryons
ophryosis

Literary usage of Ophiuras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1866)
"^aa Star-fish related to the ophiuras T. . ean usce- Characteristic Species. 4- «"*•» ''•'••'/»••"••'. from -he European ..."

2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1862)
"Among the animals appeared thousands of Zoophytes, while Star-fishes of the finest carmine, and greyish-brown ophiuras, with their five long and slender ..."

3. Upper Egypt: Its People and Its Products : Descriptive Account of the by Karl Benjamin Klunzinger (1878)
"A collector who wishes complete ophiuras must carefully pull the disk-formed body itself, or hew the animals out of the rock, or surprise them when detached ..."

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