Definition of "ophidians" [ophidians]

• Plural form of ophidian. (noun)

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• "No inhabitant of Krynn would be safe as long as Krago could breed his race of evil ophidians."
• "They never winked, for ophidians have no movable eyelids, but kept up that awful fixed stare which made the two _unwinking_ gladiators the survivors of twenty pairs matched by one of the Roman Emperors, as Pliny tells us, in his "Natural History.""
• "There is something frightful in the disposition of certain ophidians, as the whip-snake, which darts at the eyes of cattle without any apparent provocation or other motive."