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Definition of Ophiophagus
1. Noun. King cobra.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Elapidae, Family Elapidae
Member holonyms: Hamadryad, King Cobra, Naja Hannah, Ophiophagus Hannah
Definition of Ophiophagus
1. n. 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.
Medical Definition of Ophiophagus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiophagus
Literary usage of Ophiophagus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters on Sport in Eastern Bengal by Frank B. Simson (1886)
"The ophiophagus. Largest venomous snake known. Scarce. I shoot one. ... I once
killed an ophiophagus, the only one I ever saw wild. ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1871)
"There is only one species of this genus, ophiophagus elaps— Hamadryad; ...
Hamadryas ophiophagus. Cantor. Trimeresurus ophiophagus. Dum. and Bib. ..."
3. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Straits Branch (1878)
"The young ophiophagus might well be mistaken for a snake of another genus. "
Major Beddome says the young ophiophagus is very like the Dipsa,» ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1904)
"Little attention seems to have been paid to the epigastric artery, which, however,
exists and lias been chiefly studied by me in ophiophagus. ..."
5. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... one species of the latter genus being found in Japan, while an ophiophagus
has been discovered in New Guinea; ..."
6. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"Dr. Mason, in his work on Burmah, gives the following account of the ophiophagus:—
The natives describe a venomous serpent which grows to be ten or twelve ..."
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