Crossword-Solution: OPHIS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The volutes and cowries of this formation, as well as the lunulites and corals, favour the idea of a warm climate having prevailed, which is borne out by the discovery of a serpent, _Palæophis typhœus_ (see Fig.

Yet it is significant that _ophis,_ the snake, is derived, like _drakon,_ from a root meaning nothing more than to perceive or regard.

But I should think, that Eva was the same as Eph, Epha, Opha, which the Greeks rendered Οφις, Ophis, and by it denoted a serpent.

Adjacent to these {places} is Pleuron;[63] in which Combe,[64] the daughter of Ophis, escaped the wounds of her sons with trembling wings.

From the Hebrew _Ob_, the Greek [Greek: ophis] was probably derived; for the same word, in Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek, which denotes "divination" denotes a "serpent." "Nachash,"[4] "ilahat,"[5] "[Greek: oiônizesthai],"[6] have the same double signification as if the serpent were recognised as the grand inspirer of the heathen prophets.