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Thanatophidia

/θəˌnætəˈfɪdiə/

Thanatophidia noun: deadly snakes.

Noun

Thanatophidia pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) deadly snakes
    • There are fifty known varieties of these dreaded creatures, all classified under the general title of Thanatophidia.1902, Current Opinion, volume 33, number 1, page 66

Thanatophidia meaning in Tamil

Thanatophidia in Tamil

நச்சுப்பாம்புகள்

Origin of Thanatophidia

From thanato- + translingual Ophidia.

Questions about Thanatophidia

What does Thanatophidia mean?
Thanatophidia means deadly snakes.
What is Thanatophidia in Tamil?
Thanatophidia in Tamil is நச்சுப்பாம்புகள். See Thanatophidia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Thanatophidia?
Thanatophidia is a noun.
How do you pronounce Thanatophidia?
Thanatophidia is pronounced /θəˌnætəˈfɪdiə/.

Words near Thanatophidia in the dictionary

  1. thanatometers
  2. thanatomicrobiome
  3. thanatomicrobiomic
  4. thanatomimesis
  5. thanatomimetic
  6. Thanatophidia
  7. thanatophile
  8. thanatophiles
  9. thanatophilia
  10. thanatophilic
  11. thanatophobe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Thanatophidia (page history and authors); Thanatophidia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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