ophidian
English Thesaurus
1. limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | diapsid, diapsid reptile, |
| definition | : | reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | colubrid, colubrid snake, |
| definition | : | mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | blind snake, worm snake, |
| definition | : | wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | constrictor, |
| definition | : | any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | elapid, elapid snake, |
| definition | : | any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sea snake, |
| definition | : | any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | viper, |
| definition | : | venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw (noun.animal) |
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