Crossword-Solution: OPHIDIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ophidia | n. pl. | The order of reptiles which includes the serpents. |
| Ophidia | pl. | of Ophidion |
We have 5 clues for the answer “OPHIDIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Division of reptiles consisting of snakes and serpents. | 1 answer |
| The snakes, in zoological parlance. | 1 answer |
| genus snake | 1 answer |
| Snake genus | 2 answers |
| SNAKE, type of | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OPHIDIA (5)
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.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1951–1952).