ophidian (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *ophidian*:
NOUN	animal	ophidian, snake, serpent	limbless scaly elongate reptile

English > *ophidian*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous.
Synonyms	snake, serpent
Member of	Serpentes, suborder Serpentes, Ophidia, suborder Ophidia	snakes
Narrower	blind snake, worm snake	wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes
	colubrid snake, colubrid	Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial / terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes
	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
	viper	venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw
Broader	diapsid, diapsid reptile	reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
Spanish	culebra, ofidio, serpentes, serpiente, serpientes, sierpe
Catalan	serpent, serp

HyperDic: ophidian