dipsad1dæ

pl. [ Gr.dipsas, (gen it. dipsados ) =a venomous serpent, whose bite caused intense thirst, and Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.] Zool.: A family of Colubrine Snakes, tribe Sus pecta. They have a long, compre ed, slender body, generally narrower than the head. Both jaws have sometimes fangs. ( Dallas .) Type Dipsas, in some cla ifications placed under the Colubride, using that term for the whole group of Colubrine Snakes. dip'-săs, s. [Gr. dipsas =a serpent.] I. Ord. Lang.: A serpent, whose bite was fabled to produce unquenchable thirst. "Cerastes horn'd, hydrus, and ellops drear, And dipsas ." Milton: P. L., x. 526. II. Zoology : 1. A genus of non-venomous snakes belonging to Palæont .: A synonym of Dip log raps us (q. v.), the serrated cells on each side the central axis giving the family Colubride: body long and compre ed; the organism the appearance of a double saw. dip-ri-ô-nid-i-an, a. [Gr. dis =twice, twofold, priōn =a saw, and Eng. adj. suff. -idian .] Palæont .: A term applied to those fo il Hydrozoa in which the polypary po e es a row of cell ules on each side. are confined to the Lower Silurian and Cam brian Rocks." "The diprionidian Graptolites, with rare exceptions, -Nicholson: Man. of Paleont., p. 82.