"In places with rich ophidian faunas, dozens of antivenins may therefore need to be kept to hand. \u2014 The Economist , 30 Dec. 2020",
"Finally, though, Raymer does rise to the occasion, tracking down a hit-and-run driver and putting an end (with an ophidian exclamation point) to the criminal career of one of the book\u2019s more unsavory characters. \u2014 T. Coraghessan Boyle, New York Times , 3 May 2016"
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"New Latin Ophidia, order or suborder name (from ophid-, probably taken mistakenly as stem of Greek \u00f3phis \"snake\" + -ia -ia entry 2 ) + -an entry 2 ; \u00f3phis (i-stem) going back to Indo-European *h 3 eg w hi- \"snake,\" whence also Sanskrit \u00e1hi\u1e25 \"snake,\" Avestan a\u017ei-, and perhaps Armenian i\u017e \"viper\"":""
"White Lucent Anti-Dark Circles Eye Cream from Shiseido is dermatologist- and ophthalmologist -tested, and its formulation brightens the skin around the eyes by working on microcirculation and pigmentation to diminish unsightly dark circles. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 3 June 2022",
"Her grandmother, Olena Shevchun, 60, is an ophthalmologist who taught her poetry on walks through their favorite parks. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 May 2022",
"Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci foe and Covid skeptic, is a licensed ophthalmologist . \u2014 The New Republic , 31 Dec. 2021",
"In other business, the board also granted a medical license to a pediatric ophthalmologist who has completed all of the requirements except a two-year graduate medical education program. \u2014 Lisa Backus, courant.com , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Spencer Rogers, now an ophthalmologist \u2014 in the Salt Lake Temple. \u2014 Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune , 19 Apr. 2022",
"However, the retina is one place where brain blood vessels can be directly seen, and an ophthalmologist can see findings indicative of small vessel disease. \u2014 Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive , 8 Apr. 2022",
"The roots of anti-Fauci campaign rhetoric can be traced to Washington, where Dr. Fauci has clashed repeatedly with two Republican senators who are also doctors: Mr. Paul, an ophthalmologist , and Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, an obstetrician. \u2014 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times , 7 Feb. 2022",
"Bully the ophthalmologist into giving you a prescription, or two. \u2014 Maeve Higgins, The New Yorker , 24 Feb. 2022"
"And some fields, such as ophthalmology , didn\u2019t translate as well to video chats as others such as psychiatry. \u2014 David Ingram, NBC News , 19 June 2022",
"Barsody and Gleach turned to Dr. Eric Ledbetter, a professor and section chief of ophthalmology at Cornell, about extracting DNA from the soft tissue. \u2014 Maxime Tamsett, CNN , 1 May 2022",
"That led to writing for the school\u2019s satirical magazine, and Flanary contributed to GomerBlog, a sort of medical analog to The Onion, through his training in ophthalmology . \u2014 Damian Garde, STAT , 25 Mar. 2022",
"The next-biggest backlog is found in ophthalmology , which saw 535,665 eye patients waiting for treatment in October. \u2014 Katherine Hignett, Forbes , 25 Dec. 2021",
"Natural aging, hormonal changes from menopause, and certain health conditions can also contribute to dry eye, says Esek Akpek, MDYou , professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. \u2014 Amy Marturana Winderl, Health.com , 8 Dec. 2021",
"Baring is keeping the Lumenis aesthetics and ophthalmology businesses. \u2014 Jon Chesto \u2014 Boston Globe, STAT , 5 Sep. 2021",
"Most recently, Singh worked at Cleveland Clinic\u2019s main campus in Ohio, as a staff physician at the Cole Eye Institute and professor of ophthalmology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. \u2014 Cindy Kent, sun-sentinel.com , 1 Nov. 2021",
"The lens in the eye actually gets bigger with normal aging, Daniel Laroche, MD, director of glaucoma services and president of Advanced Eyecare of New York and assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, tells Health. \u2014 Amy Marturana Winderl, Health.com , 28 Oct. 2021"
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"borrowed from German Ophthalmologie, from ophthalmo- ophthalmo- + -logie -logy":""
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"\u02c8\u014df-",
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"French ophicl\u00e9ide , from ophi- + Greek kleid-, kleis key":""
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"\u00e4f-\u02c8thal-mik",
"\u00e4p-"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"But as the authors note, 172 countries accounting for 3.5 billion people have no public ophthalmic data repository for researchers to draw from \u2014 data deserts that frequently also affect other fields of medicine. \u2014 Katie Palmer, STAT , 9 Apr. 2022",
"Andrew is a veteran human resources leader and Chief Human Resources Officer at BVI, a leading global ophthalmic medical device manufacturer. \u2014 Andrew Dawson, Forbes , 17 May 2021",
"As a result of her altruistic endeavor, Brooke came up with the idea of creating a PPE patient pack for surgeons and surgical centers looking to safely welcome patients back as lockdown protocols ease, giving our ophthalmic partners peace of mind. \u2014 Andrew Dawson, Forbes , 17 May 2021",
"Then Butler returned to school to become an ophthalmic assistant. \u2014 Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 10 Mar. 2021",
"The answer could aid the development of treatments for dry eyes and other ophthalmic troubles in people. \u2014 Katherine J. Wu New York Times, Star Tribune , 9 Sep. 2020",
"In Muskogee, where the family settled, his father was an optician who founded Coburn Optical Industries, which made ophthalmic equipment and eyeglass lenses. \u2014 Robert D. Mcfadden, New York Times , 28 Mar. 2020",
"She was treated by ophthalmic surgeon Dana Robaei, who wrote about Lynch\u2019s case in the May 2018 issue of the journal Ophthalmology. \u2014 Sarah Klein, Health.com , 1 June 2018",
"John Bradley, 75, an ophthalmic surgeon who operated a private practice in Chevy Chase, Md., for about 35 years, died March 20 at a hospital in Washington. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 May 2018"
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"Middle English obtalmic \"inflamed, produced by ophthalmia,\" borrowed from Late Latin ophthalmicus \"of the eye\" (Medieval Latin also obtalmicus, Latin opthalmicus as noun, \"oculist\"), borrowed from Greek ophthalmik\u00f3s, from ophthalm\u00f3s \"eye\" + -ikos -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at ophthalmo-":""
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"borrowed from Greek, combining form from ophthalm\u00f3s \"eye,\" of uncertain origin":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-070951"
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"adjective",
"noun"
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"ophthalmophore from ophthalm- + -phore; ophthalmophorium from New Latin, from English ophthalmophore":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-091023"
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"noun"
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"\u00e4f\u02c8thalm\u0113\u02cc\u0101t\u0259(r)",
"\u00f7\u00e4p\u02c8th-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ophthalm- + Greek iat\u0113r healer, from iasthai to heal":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-102845"
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"type":[
"noun"
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"definitions":{
": a large northern constellation that is visible between the constellations of Scutum and Hercules and that is represented by the figure of a man grasping a snake (the constellation Serpens)":[
"Thomas Greene of the University of Hawaii and Charles Lada of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory have studied five protostars in Ophiuchus , each about 100,000 years old.",
"\u2014 Astronomy , September 1997"
]
},
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"\u02cc\u00e4-f\u0113-\u02c8y\u00fc-k\u0259s",
"\u02cc\u014d-"
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"first_known_use":{
"1556, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-123810"
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"noun"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ophthalm- + -pod":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-154536"
},
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"adjective"
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"definitions":{
": having or being a rock fabric in which lath-shaped plagioclase crystals are enclosed in later formed augite":[]
},
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"\u00e4-\u02c8fi-tik"
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"ophite \"rock with snake-like markings, serpentine\" (borrowed from Latin oph\u012bt\u0113s, borrowed from Greek oph\u012b\u0301t\u0113s [ l\u00edthos ] \"snake-like [stone],\" from \u00f3phis \"snake\" + -it\u0113s -ite entry 1 ) + -ic entry 1 \u2014 more at ophidian":""
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"plural noun"
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": a family of slender tropical eels comprising the snake eels":[]
"New Latin, from Ophichthys, Ophicthys , type genus (irregular from ophi- + -ichthys ) + -idae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-180307"
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": a very large and widely distributed genus of brittle stars":[]
},
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"\u02cc\u00e4f\u0113\u02c8(y)u\u0307r\u0259",
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-181423"
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"plural noun"
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": a family of elongated cylindrical carnivorous labyrinth fishes comprising the snakehead mullets of eastern Asia and Africa and usually made coextensive with a suborder of Percomorphi":[]
"New Latin, from Ophicephalus , type genus (from ophi- + -cephalus ) + -idae":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-193803"
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"noun"
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"\u00e4f-\u02c8thal-m\u0113-\u0259",
"\u00e4f-\u02c8thal-m\u0113-\u0259, \u00e4p-",
"\u00e4p-"
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"During the Italian campaign Hannibal rode an elephant through a swamp off the Arno and lost the sight in his right eye from what was probably ophthalmia . \u2014 Smithsonian , 29 July 2017",
"During the Italian campaign Hannibal rode an elephant through a swamp off the Arno and lost the sight in his right eye from what was probably ophthalmia . \u2014 Smithsonian , 29 July 2017",
"During the Italian campaign Hannibal rode an elephant through a swamp off the Arno and lost the sight in his right eye from what was probably ophthalmia . \u2014 Smithsonian , 29 July 2017",
"During the Italian campaign Hannibal rode an elephant through a swamp off the Arno and lost the sight in his right eye from what was probably ophthalmia . \u2014 Smithsonian , 29 July 2017",
"During the Italian campaign Hannibal rode an elephant through a swamp off the Arno and lost the sight in his right eye from what was probably ophthalmia . \u2014 Smithsonian , 29 July 2017",
"During the Italian campaign Hannibal rode an elephant through a swamp off the Arno and lost the sight in his right eye from what was probably ophthalmia . \u2014 Smithsonian , 29 July 2017",
"During the Italian campaign Hannibal rode an elephant through a swamp off the Arno and lost the sight in his right eye from what was probably ophthalmia . \u2014 Smithsonian , 29 July 2017",
"During the Italian campaign Hannibal rode an elephant through a swamp off the Arno and lost the sight in his right eye from what was probably ophthalmia . \u2014 Smithsonian , 28 June 2017"
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"Middle English obtalmia, borrowed from Late Latin ophthalmia (Medieval Latin also obtalmia ), borrowed from Greek ophthalm\u00eda, from ophthalm\u00f3s \"eye\" + -ia -ia entry 1 ophthalmo-":""
},
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"14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-204927"
},
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"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": crystalline limestone or marble spotted with greenish serpentine : verd antique":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00a6\u00e4f\u0259",
"\u00a6\u014df\u0259+"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"ophi- + calcite":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-224102"
},
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a family of elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes comprising the cusk eels and with related forms constituting a suborder of Percomorphi":[]
"New Latin, from Ophidion , type genus (from Latin ophidion , fish resembling the conger, from Greek, diminutive of ophis ) + -idae":""
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-224314"
},
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"type":[
"adjective"
],
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"\u02c8\u014df-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-002021"
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"noun"
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": a member of a Gnostic sect or group of sects including the Naassenes and Perates that revered the serpent as the symbol of the hidden divine wisdom and as having befriended Adam and Eve by persuading them to eat of the tree of knowledge":[]
},
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"-f\u012bt"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin, from Greek ophit\u0113s ( lithos ), literally, serpentine stone, from ophit\u0113s like a snake, from ophis":"Noun",
"Late Latin Ophitae , plural, from Late Greek Ophitai , plural, from Greek ophis snake + -itae , plural of -ites -ite":"Noun"
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-010126"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": ophite entry 2":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u014df-",
"\u02c8\u00e4f\u0113\u0259n"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Greek ophianoi , plural, from Greek ophis + -anoi , plural of -anos -an":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-032026"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the neural visual apparatus including the retinas, the optic nerves, and the parts of the brain functioning in vision":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00f7(\u00a6)\u00e4p\u00a6th-+",
"(\u00a6)\u00e4f\u00a6thalm"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from ophthalm- + encephalon":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-041250"
},
"Ophthalmosaurus":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaurs of England having no or only a few small teeth":[]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from ophthalm- + -saurus":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-054638"
},
"ophi-":{
"type":[
"combining form"
],
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"ophio phagous",
"ophio latrous"
],
": thing suggesting a snake":[
"ophi calcite"
],
": being or resembling a snake in respect to a (specified) structure or quality":[
"ophio cephalus"
]
},
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Greek, from ophis snake":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-074149"
},
"ophthalmoscope":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": an instrument for use in viewing the interior of the eye and especially the retina":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u00e4f-\u02c8thal-m\u0259-\u02ccsk\u014dp",
"\u00e4p-"
],
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"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"And the school gave him a stethoscope and a ophthalmoscope to thank him for the heart and vision in increasing his donation. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 9 June 2021",
"Normally, a glaucoma screening requires a doctor\u2019s visit and the use of an ophthalmoscope to view the fundus, the internal lining of the eye and measure the health of a patient\u2019s retina. \u2014 Nathan Percy, Orange County Register , 10 Feb. 2017",
"An ophthalmoscope image of diabetic retinopathy shows damage to the retina caused by diabetes. \u2014 Eric Schmidt, Newsweek , 10 Jan. 2017",
"So researchers at the University of Warwick in Coventry in the U.K. spent three years developing an ophthalmoscope that creates a high-quality digital image using fancy technology. \u2014 Kristen Philipkoski, WIRED , 5 Mar. 2007",
"New equipment like x-ray machines, ophthalmoscopes , and cardiographs improved diagnostic and therapeutic options. \u2014 Jeanne Kisacky, Smithsonian , 14 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from French, from ophthalmo- ophthalmo- + -scope -scope , after ophthalmoscopie \"examination of the eye\"":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1857, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-110352"
},
"ophelimity":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": economic satisfaction":[
"the seller's net ophelimity varies with the price"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02cc\u00e4f\u0259\u02c8lim\u0259t\u0113",
"\u02cc\u014df-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian ofelimit\u00e0 , from Greek \u014dphelimos useful, helpful (from \u014dphelein to help, from ophelos advantage, help) + Italian -it\u00e0 -ity; akin to Sanskrit \u0101 toward and to Sanskrit phalam fruit, profit":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-125101"
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the daughter of Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet":[]
"probably by shortening (with conformation to -oid entry 1 ) of New Latin Ophiuroidea, class name, from Ophiura, a brittle star genus (from Greek \u00f3phis \"snake\" + -oura, feminine of -uros \"having a tail [of the kind specified],\" adjective derivative of our\u00e1 \"tail\") + -oidea, suffix of higher taxa (from -oides -oid entry 2 + -ea, neuter plural of -eus -eous ) \u2014 more at ophidian , ass entry 2":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"circa 1879, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae ) native to Eurasia and northern Africa and having flowers with a large hairy labellum which resembles an insect \u2014 see bee orchid , fly orchid":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8\u00e4fr\u0259\u0307s",
"\u02c8\u014df-"
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"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Greek, brow, eyebrow, a plant with two leaves":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-172146"
},
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"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a subclass or class of Echinodermata comprising the brittle stars and basket stars and being distinguished from Asteroidea by the slender flexible arms that are sharply marked off from the central disc, contain neither intestinal ceca nor prolongations of the gonads, and lack ambulacral grooves and by the location of the madreporite on the ventral surface adjacent to the mouth \u2014 see euryalida , ophiurida":[]
},
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"New Latin, from Ophiura + -oidea":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-182140"
},
"Ophryoscolecidae":{
"type":[
"plural noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a large family of oligotrichous ciliates that are endocommensals in the stomach of ruminants where they break down starches and probably cellulose and presumably contribute protein to their hosts":[]
