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‖ Ophidium Zool.|əʊˈfɪdɪəm|
Also 8 ophidion.
[med.L., ad. L. ophidion (Pliny), a. Gr. ὀϕίδιον ‘a fish resembling the conger’, dim. of ὄϕις serpent.]
A genus of gadoid fishes with elongated bodies; a fish of this genus.
1706Phillips, Ophidion, a sort of Sea-fish resembling a Serpent or Eel. 1752Sir J. Hill Hist. Anim. 238–9 The Ophidion, with four beards on the lower jaw..is frequent in the Mediterranean... The Ophidion, without beards..is frequent in the Baltic, and some other seas. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) II. iii. i. 295 The Ophidium, or Gilt-head. |