ophidian

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The jeweler’s earliest snake-inspired pieces tended toward abstraction, referencing ophidian sinuousness by way of a corrugated gold bracelet — based on the articulated flex of gas piping — that slithered up the wrist.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2022

An obnoxious ophidian invaded a soccer pitch in Guatemala, delaying a game between Nueva Concepcion and Municipal.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2022

If the collections shown on the seventh day of Paris fashion week demonstrate anything for , keep your use of pelts, hides and skins to a minimum — particularly of those ophidian.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2011

Then an "odious ophidian," a python regius of "lethal length," "leprous luster" and "fetid folds," embraced and kissed him so strenuously that he died, shattering her "cordon of dreams."

From Time Magazine Archive

The compressed form and diminutive size of certain caudal vertebrae indicate so much analogy with Hydrus as to induce Professor Owen to pronounce this extinct ophidian to have been marine.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir