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ophic

ophic adjective: relating to snakes.

Adjective

ophic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to snakes.
    • […] there were reasons for believing that the sacred cords of the East Indies could be traced back to an ophic origin […]1892, Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, page 574

Origin of ophic

From ophi- + -ic.

Questions about ophic

What does ophic mean?
Ophic means relating to snakes.
What part of speech is ophic?
Ophic is an adjective.

Words near ophic in the dictionary

  1. ophiactid
  2. ophiactids
  3. Ophian
  4. Ophians
  5. ophiasis
  6. ophic
  7. ophicalcite
  8. ophicephalous
  9. ophiceratid
  10. ophiceratids
  11. ophichthid

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