Crossword-Solution: OPHIDIA 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

This change of gastrulation is still found in the remarkable ophidia (Gymnophiona, Coecilia, or Peromela), serpent-like amphibia that live in moist soil in the tropics, and in many respects represent the transition from the gill-breathing amphibia to the lung-breathing reptiles.

Thus, three of Cuvier’s four orders of reptilia (_sauria_, _chelonia_, and _batrachia_) are represented in this formation, the serpent order (_ophidia_) being alone wanting.

This change of gastrulation is still found in the remarkable ophidia (_Gymnophiona, Cœcilia,_ or _Peromela_), serpent-like amphibia that live in moist soil in the tropics, and in many respects represent the transition from the gill-breathing amphibia to the lung-breathing reptiles.

Ten species of ophidia are known in the Japanese islands, but in the larger number of more or less imaginary varieties which figure in the ancient books we shall find plenty of material for fetich-worship.

His classical lines on the subject when translated run thus:-- "By eating herb of Fennel, for the eyes A cure for blindness had the serpent wise; Man tried the plant; and, trusting that his sight Might thus be healed, rejoiced to find him right." "Hac mansâ serpens oculos caligine purgat; Indeque compertum est humanis posse mederi Illum hominibus: atque experiendo probatum est." Pliny also asserts that the ophidia, when they cast their skins, have recourse to this plant for restoring their [180] sight.