10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OPHIOMORPHOUS»
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ophiomorphous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ophiomorphous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Babylonian and Oriental Record
Zoomorphous and ophiomorphous, as well as other monstrous, combinations are
alluded to in the Chinese legends, as peculiar to the mythical beings and great
men of early times. They are without doubt an echo of the views of the same kind
...
2
Babyloniam & Oriental Record: A Monthly Magazine of the ...
Zoomorphous and ophiomorphous, as well as other monstrous, combinations are
alluded to in the Chinese legends, as peculiar to the mythical beings and great
men of early times. They are without doubt an echo of the views of the same kind
...
... genus Zabyrinthodon under the form of a great toad have no justification, but
are contradicted by well-known facts. rinthodonts at present known ; and an
ophiomorphous division, typified 170 Wright and Huxley— Fossil Reptiles from
Ireland.
4
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language on a Plan ...
X Ophiomorphous, having the form of a serpent. $ Ophite, n. green porphyry, or
serpentine ; but Ophite, a. pertaining to a serpent. || Ophiuchus. a constellation in
the northern hemisphere. If Ophthalmoscopy, a branch of physiognomy which ...
John Oswald, John Miller Keagy, 1844
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The Geological Magazine Or Monthly Journal of Geology
rinthodonts at present known ; and an ophiomorphous division, typified by
Ophiderpeton. The anurous frog-like form will be alone wanting to complete the
representation of the existing Amphibia in ancient times. In concluding, it is but
right that ...
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THE CLASS-BOOKOF ETYMOLOGY, DESIGNED TO PROMOTE PRECISION IN ...
Ophis. Ophiology. Ophis ; logos. Ophiomancy. Ophis; mancia. Ophiomorphous.
Ophis; morphe. Ophiophagous. Ophis ; phago. Ophite. Ophis. Ophiuchus. Ophis;
(echo, to have). Ophthalmic. Ophthalmos. Ophthalmoscopy. Ophthalmos; scopeo.
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On the anatomy of vertebrates
... left to the seventeenth, vertebra, in Salaman- dra atra.1 The ophiomorphous
batrachia are remarkable for the multiplicity, the theriomorphous for the paucity,
of distinct vertebrae in the trunk ; these latter have the ball-and-socket articulation
.
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A Comprehensive Dictionary of the World
... or which arranges and describes the several kinds. Ophiomancy, of -e-o-man-
se, s. (Gr.) In anti- atilty, the art of divining or predicting events by serpents, as by
their manner of eating or by their coils. Ophiomorphous, of-e-o-mor -fus, a.
And these again symbolize facts in osteological science as connected with the
latest theories of the vertebrated cranium,* which view Nature as ophiomorphous
—a series of spines, ,crowned, winged, webbed, finned, footed in structure — set
...
Amos Bronson Alcott, 1868
... genus Labyrinthodon under the form of a great toad have no justification, but
are contradicted by well-known facts. rinthodonts at present known ; and an
ophiomorphous division, typified 170 Wright and Huxley— Fossil Reptiles from
Ireland.
