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Definition of Suborder ophidia
1. Noun. Snakes.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Squamata, Squamata
Member holonyms: Ophidian, Serpent, Snake, Colubridae, Family Colubridae, Family Typhlopidae, Typhlopidae, Family Leptotyphlopidae, Leptotyphlopidae, Boidae, Family Boidae, Elapidae, Family Elapidae, Family Hydrophidae, Hydrophidae, Family Viperidae, Viperidae, Crotalidae, Family Crotalidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Ophidia
Literary usage of Suborder ophidia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Research in China by Eliot Blackwelder, Bailey Willis, Rufus Harvey Sargent, Friedrich Hirth, Charles Doolittle Walcott (1907)
"suborder ophidia. (Snakes, etc.) GRAY: Ana Mag. of Nat. History, zd ser., vol.
XII, 1853, p. 390. Several individuals were seen along the road through the ..."
2. A Text-book in General Zoölogy by Glenn Washington Herrick (1907)
"Chameleo vulgaris — Old World chameleon. Phrynosoma cornutum — Horned toad.
Heloderma suspectum — Gila monster. Suborder — Ophidia. Types of Order. ..."
3. A Text-book in General Zoölogy by Glenn Washington Herrick (1907)
"Chameleo vulgaris — Old World chameleon. Phrynosoma cornutum — Horned toad.
Heloderma suspectum — Gila monster. Suborder — Ophidia. Types of Order. ..."
4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1890)
"... these Squamata we see that the rule in the suborder Lacertilia is to lose the
teeth from front to back, and in the suborder Ophidia from back to front. ..."
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