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Definition of Ophidia

1. Noun. Snakes.

Definition of Ophidia

1. n. pl. The order of reptiles which includes the serpents.

Medical Definition of Ophidia

1. The order of reptiles which includes the serpents. The most important divisions are: the Solenoglypha, having erectile perforated fangs, as the rattlesnake; the Proteroglypha, or elapine serpents, having permanently erect fang, as the cobra; the Asinea, or colubrine serpents, which are destitute of fangs; and the Opoterodonta, or Epanodonta, blindworms, in which the mouth is not dilatable. Origin: NL, fr. Gr, dim. Of a snake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Ophidia

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

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1894)
"The absence of tangible external characters which furnish indications of affinity in the ophidia is well known. The important characters to be found in the ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"Remarks on the General Distribution of ophidia. The ophidia, being preeminently a Tropical order—rapidly diminishing in numbers as we go north in the ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"... continued—ophidia— SNAKES Order II. ophidia—SNAKES. Saurians which have the right and left halves of the lower jaw ..."

4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The penis in Crocodilia is single, grooved and contained within a special cloacal fold; in ophidia two lateral penes exist, and these are hollow and ..."

5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"Vertebral column of ophidia.—Amongst existing Reptiles, the Serpents ( ophidia) surpass all others in the vast number of their vertebrae, which, ..."

6. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"Vertebral column of ophidia.—Amongst existing Reptiles, the Serpents ( ophidia) surpass all others in the vast number of their vertebra:, which, ..."

7. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"THE ORDER OF ophidia, OR SERPENTS. THE Order of ophidia comprises scaly reptiles which are exceedingly long, and without feet, and which move by the ..."

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