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ophidian

[oh-fid-ee-uhn] / oʊˈfɪd i ən /


NOUN
serpent
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The jeweler’s earliest snake-inspired pieces tended toward abstraction, referencing ophidian sinuousness by way of a corrugated gold bracelet — based on the articulated flex of gas piping — that slithered up the wrist.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

An obnoxious ophidian invaded a soccer pitch in Guatemala, delaying a game between Nueva Concepcion and Municipal.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

If the collections shown on the seventh day of Paris fashion week demonstrate anything for , keep your use of pelts, hides and skins to a minimum — particularly of those ophidian.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2011

Then an "odious ophidian," a python regius of "lethal length," "leprous luster" and "fetid folds," embraced and kissed him so strenuously that he died, shattering her "cordon of dreams."

From Time Magazine Archive

Whether there be, or be not, a huge marine animal, not necessarily an ophidian, answering to some of the descriptions of the sea-serpent—so called—Pontoppidan did not invent the stories told of its appearance.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by H. W. (Henry William) Lee


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