Pelias

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Pelias m

1. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Viperidae – Vipera (Pelias), formerly a genus.

Hypernyms

• (subgenus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Reptilia – class; Diapsida - subclass; Lepidosauromorpha - infraclass; Lepidosauria - superorder; Squamata - order; Serpentes - order; Caenophidia - suborder; Viperoidea - superfamily; Viperidae - family; Viperinae - subfamily; Vipera - genus

Hyponyms

• (subgenus): Pelias berus (now Vipera berus) - selected species

References

• Vipera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “Pelias”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Cebuano

Proper noun

Pelias

1. a surname
2. (Greek mythology) Pelias, the king of Iolcus