ophidian

Other forms of ophidian

plural

ophidians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ophidian

What does ophidian mean?

ophidian means "limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous".

How many syllables are in ophidian?

ophidian has 4 syllables: o-phi-di-an. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for ophidian?

Close synonyms include snake, serpent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ophidian a common word?

ophidian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.