Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One versed in the natural history of serpents; an ophidologist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One versed in the natural history of serpents.

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  • noun One who studies ophiology.

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Examples

  • Starting at one end roll up the dough into a log form, or, channeling your inner ophiologist, into a snake form.

    The Succulent Café. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Fonda is Charles "Hoppsy" Pike, an ale heir and amateur ophiologist; he�s come from a year up the Amazon and hailed a cruise ship sailing for New York.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • It’s often overt: Cary Grant meets Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby while in the process of trying to secure a million-dollar donation for the museum he works at; worldly Barbara Stanwyck is after timid ophiologist Henry Fonda’s inheritance in The Lady Eve.

    The Turn of the Screw (I) Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • It’s often overt: Cary Grant meets Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby while in the process of trying to secure a million-dollar donation for the museum he works at; worldly Barbara Stanwyck is after timid ophiologist Henry Fonda’s inheritance in The Lady Eve.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

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