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Ophidian

One of the Ophidia a snake or serpent

Ophicleide

octaves now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas It developed from the older wooden instrument called the serpent

VerbarOphiuchus

A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands called also Serpentarius

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Nehushtan

A thing of brass the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses

Culverin

A long cannon of the 16th century usually an 18 pounder with serpent shaped handles

Guaco

A plant Aristolochia anguicida of Carthagena used as an antidote to serpent bites

Boa constrictor

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America sometimes twenty or thirty feet long See Illustration in Appendix

Bom

A large American serpent so called from the sound it makes

Copperhead

A poisonous American serpent Ancistrodon conotortrix closely allied to the rattlesnake but without rattles called also copper belly and red viper

Crest

ornament growing on an animals head the comb of a cock the swelling on the head of a serpent the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird etc

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