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ophions

ophions is the plural of ophion.

Meaning of ophion

Noun

ophion (plural ophions)

  1. Any ichneumon wasp of the genus Ophion.
    • The third discoidal cell is in most Ophions short and thick, but in O. costale, as in the other genera, it is long and narrow.1912, Charles W. Hooker, “The Ichneumon Flies of America Belonging to the Tribe Ophionini”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 38, number 1, page 10

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Questions about ophions

What is ophions the plural of?
Ophions is the plural of ophion.

Words near ophions in the dictionary

  1. ophiomorphites
  2. ophiomorphous
  3. ophion
  4. ophionereidid
  5. ophionereidids
  6. ophions
  7. ophiophage
  8. ophiophages
  9. ophiophagous
  10. ophiophagy
  11. ophiophile

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