How To Use Ophidia In A Sentence
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She crossed over to the steel sinks of the lab module, carefully holding the ophidian probe away from her.
Forever Free
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Moreover, they provide a first insight into the composition of the earliest ophidian venoms and point the way toward a research program that could elucidate the functional context of the evolution of the snake venom proteome.
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Serpents, or Snakes, says the Encyclopaedia, are reptiles of the saurian class Ophidia, characterised by an elongated, cylindrical, limbless, scaly form, and distinguished from lizards by the fact that the halves
Indiscretions of Archie
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A glance over his The Conquering Sword of Conan shoulder just as the door was closing showed Conan the long dim vista of the hall, and dimly framed at the other end an ophidian shape that writhed slowly and painfully into view, flowing in a dull-hued length from a chamber door, its hideous blood-stained head wagging drunkenly.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan
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But if the sun grew more and more hot and dazzling as the day progressed, then the tremendous ophidian head would become increasingly real to my sight, with glistening scales and symmetrical markings; and I would walk carefully not to stumble against or touch it; and when I cast my eyes behind me I could see no end to its great coils extending across the savannah.
Green Mansions
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I knew of the Snake Dances in farthest Estwilde, where the mongoose is brought in to the last movement of the dance, where with nothing but quickness and brains and sharp teeth it goes up against the deadly ophidian to the music of pipe and drums.
Virginity
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After all, if Commander Artemus Bishop can outwit the Serpent Empire of Saurian-Five, why should I be intimidated by a crate of squamous Ophidia.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment
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In the museum, Cuvier's classification has been followed, with slight variations; that is to say, the reptiles have been re-divided into four classes: -- the Sauria, or Lizards (in which class some modern naturalists, as Merrem and others, include serpents); the Ophidia, or
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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“Actually,” he said, “this life form is considerably less evolved than either the Serpentes or Ophidia suborders.
Legacy
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His style, which Aiken described as "like a jungle of rank creepers and ferocious blooms taking shape before one's eyes-magnificently and endlessly intervolved, glistening and ophidianly in motion, coil sliding over coil, and leaf and flower forever magically interchanging," was viewed by a majority with less favor.
The Private World of William Faulkner
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Some aspects of the ophidian anatomy can be explained by an aquatic mode of life of their putative ancestor, but others are more easily explained by a terrestrial ancestry of snakes.
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There are 37 species (3 crocodilians, 8 chelonians, 14 lacertilians and 12 ophidians) distributed in 30 genera recorded so far.
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She aimed at the ophidian head of the serpent and was on the point of striking, when she started with surprise and lowered her hand.
Warlock
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If the less perfect ophidians, or snakes, which now abound on the earth had taken the lead in those ancient days among the land reptiles, and the Deinosaurians had been contemporary with Man, there can be no doubt that the progressionist would have seized upon this fact with unfeigned satisfaction as confirmatory of his views.
The Antiquity of Man
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If you have always been afraid of snakes, visit a zoo with an ophidian exhibit.
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Fulldls.com
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With a price tag of about Rp 200,000, you either have to be an ophidian connoisseur or be firmly convinced of the health-giving properties.
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Monstrous Ophidia are mentioned in sober history, e.g. that which delayed the army of
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Snake-like-ness happens to have a number of different adjectives, including one of the rare non - ine forms: ophidian.
Breakfast in Bed
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As a child, he had shrunk from visiting the serpent house at the Zoo; and, later, when he had come to man's estate and had put off childish things, and settled down in real earnest to his self-appointed mission of drinking up all the alcoholic fluid in England, the distaste for Ophidia had lingered.
Indiscretions of Archie
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As indicated by the morphological description above, the postcranial skeleton of Haasiophis (and Pachyrhachis) generally corresponds to an ophidian morphology with no apparent regionalization of the precaudal (precloacal) axial skeleton.
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Boas and pythons still possess vestigial remnants of hind limbs, called "anal claws," which indicate that they are basal members of the ophidian clade.
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Monstrous Ophidia are mentioned in sober history, e.g. that which delayed the army of Regulus.
Arabian nights. English
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Alethinophidians and scolecophidians form a monophyletic ophidian clade that is also unresolved within scleroglossans.
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As she recited the prayer with a mien as dark as fate, the supplicant rolled her long neck from side to side, and nodded her ophidian-shaped head in accordance with a sort of regular, lethargic rhythm.
Through Russia
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- She perceives me to be of ophidian sentiment, I will bathe with her.
THE BOOK OF SUCH ~ a suite of poems
