Ophiomancy to Opossum
Ophiomancy
(O"phi*o*man`cy) n. [Gr. 'o`fis a serpent + -mancy: cf. F. ophiomantie.] Divination by
serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils.
Ophiomorpha
(||O`phi*o*mor"pha) n. pl. [NL. See Ophiomorphous.] (Zoöl.) An order of tailless amphibians
having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in
the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and
Ophidobatrachia.
Ophiomorphite
(O`phi*o*mor"phite) n. [Gr. 'o`fis a serpent + form.] (Paleon.) An ammonite.
Ophiomorphous
(O`phi*o*mor"phous) a. [Gr. 'o`fis a serpent + -morphous.] Having the form of a
serpent.
Ophiophagous
(O`phi*oph"a*gous) a. [Gr. 'o`fis a serpent + fagei^n to eat: cf. F. ophiophage.] (Zoöl.)
Feeding on serpents; — said of certain birds and reptiles.
Ophiophagus
(||O`phi*oph"a*gus), n. [NL. See Ophiophagous.] (Zoöl.) A genus of venomous East
Indian snakes, which feed on other snakes. Ophiophagus elaps is said to be the largest and most
deadly of poisonous snakes.
Ophite
(O"phite) a. [Gr. 'ofi`ths, fr. 'o`fis a serpent.] Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]
Ophite
(O"phite), n. [L. ophites, Gr. 'ofi`ths a kind of marble spotted like a serpent: cf. F. ophite.] (Min.)
A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; — first found
in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance. — O*phi"ic a.
Ophite
(O"phite), n. [L. Ophitae, pl. See Ophite, a.] (Eccl.Hist.) A mamber of a Gnostic serpent-
worshiping sect of the second century.
Ophiuchus
(||O`phi*u"chus) n. [L., fr. Gr. lit., holding a serpent; 'o`fis a serpent + to hold.] (Astron.) A
constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands; — called
also Serpentarius.
Ophiura
(||O`phi*u"ra) n. [NL., from Gr. snake + a tail.] (Zoöl.) A genus of ophiurioid starfishes.
Ophiuran
(O`phi*u"ran) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea. — n. One of the Ophiurioidea.
Ophiurid
(O`phi*u"rid) n. (Zoöl.) Same as Ophiurioid.
Ophiurida
(||O`phi*u"ri*da) n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Ophiurioidea.
Ophiurioid
(O`phi*u"ri*oid) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Ophiurioidea. — n. One of the Ophiurioidea.
[Written also ophiuroid.]
Ophiurioidea
(||O`phi*u`ri*oi"de*a ||O`phi*u*roi"de*a) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. serpent + tail + form.] (Zoöl.)
A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are
not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; — called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust.
under Brittle star.
Ophryon
(||Oph"ry*on) n. [NL., fr. Gr. the brow.] (Anat.) The supraorbital point.
Ophthalmia
(Oph*thal"mi*a) n. [F. ophthalmie, L. ophthalmia, fr. Gr. 'ofqalmi`a, fr. 'ofqalmo`s the
eye, akin to E. optic. See Optic.] (Med.) An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of
the eyeball.
