Word Meanings - OPHITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a serpent.

Related words: (words related to OPHITE)

• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• SERPENTARIUS
  A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• SERPENTINOUS
  Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• SERPENTARIA
  The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot
• SERPENTIFORM
  Having the form of a serpent.
• SERPENTINE
  Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid. Thy shape Like his, and color serpentine.
• SERPENT
  Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia. Note: The serpents are mostly long and slender, and move partly by bending the body into undulations or folds and pressing them against objects, and
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SERPENTINIAN
  See OPHITE
• SERPENTINIZE
  To convert into serpentine. -- Ser`pen*tin`i*za"tion, n.
• SERPENTIZE
  To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine. The river runs before the door, and serpentizes more than you can conceive. Walpole.
• SERPENTIGENOUS
  Bred of a serpent.
• SEA SERPENT
  Any marine snake. See Sea snake.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach