Definition of Ophiodon

1. Noun. A genus of Ophiodontidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Ophiodon
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Ophiodontidae, Ophiodontidae
Member holonyms: Lingcod, Ophiodon Elongatus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiodon

Opel
OpenCourseWare
OpenDocument
OpenGL
Open Closed Principle
Open Game
Open Games
Open Sound Control
Open University
Operation Desert Storm
Ophelia
Opheodrys
Opheodrys aestivus
Opheodrys vernalis
Ophidiidae
Ophiodon (current term)
Ophiodon elongatus
Ophiodontidae
Ophioglossaceae
Ophioglossales
Ophioglossum
Ophioglossum pendulum
Ophiophagus hannan
Ophir
Ophisaurus
Ophiuchus
Ophryoscolecidae
Ophrys
Ophrys apifera
Ophrys insectifera

Literary usage of Ophiodon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1855)
"Fig. 3, a scale from the abdominal region. List of specimens. Ophiodon ... Ophiodon, GRD. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. VII, 1854, 133. ..."

2. ... The Blood-vascular System of the Loricati, the Mailcheeked Fishes by William Fitch Allen (1905)
"GENERAL SURVEY OF THE BLOOD VESSELS IN Ophiodon. Since the blood of a fish passes around in a circle, it matters but little where we begin. ..."

3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"Palatine and vomerine teeth; a skinny flap above each orbit; scales ctenoid. (Gir.) Coast of California. 2. Ophiodon. Ophiodon, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. ..."

4. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1860)
"Palatine and vomerine teeth ; a skinny flap above each orbit; scales ctenoid. (Gir.) Coast of California. 2. Ophiodon. Ophiodon, Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. ..."

5. A Guide to the Study of Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1905)
"Cultus Cod, Ophiodon elongatus (Girard). Sitka, Alaska. mus of Japan differs in the ... Ophiodon elongatus, the blue cod, cultus cod, or Buffalo cod of ..."

6. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"The Cultus Cod, Ophiodon elongates, is universally called " Cod-fish," where the true cod is unknown. About Puget Sound the English call it "Ling. ..."

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