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Definition of Reptile

1. Noun. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms.

Definition of Reptile

1. a. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

2. n. An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.

Definition of Reptile

1. Noun. A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class ''Reptilia''. ¹

2. Noun. (figuratively) A mean or grovelling person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reptile

1. any of a class of cold-blooded, air-breathing vertebrates [n -S]

Medical Definition of Reptile

1. 1. An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like. "An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live." (Cowper) 2. One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia. The amphibians were formerly classed with Reptilia, and are still popularly called reptiles, though much more closely allied to the fishes. 3. A groveling or very mean person. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reptile

Literary usage of Reptile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"Notice on the Iguanodon, a newly discovered Fossil reptile, from the Sandstone ... The bones of the fossil herbivorous reptile described in this paper were ..."

2. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Therein is emphasized the statement made by Broom that all of the characters wherein a mammal differs from a reptile are the result of increased activity, ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"... but until very recently that was the oldest formation from which any evidence of a Dinosaurian reptile had been the property of science ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"Le Conte adds : " But the difference in size between the living and the extinct reptile is enormous. The iguana is from four to six feet long ..."

5. Sketches of Creation: A Popular View of Some of the Grand Conclusions of the by Alexander Winchell (1870)
"Whether bird or reptile, paleontologists have well hesitated to decide. Professor Dana is fully convinced that we ought to regard ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"Le Conte adds : " But the difference in size between the living and the extinct reptile is enormous. The iguana is from four to six feet long ..."

7. Mosses with a Hand-lens: A Non-technical Handbook of the More Common and by Abel Joel Grout (1905)
"HYPNUM reptile MX. is another regularly^e'arly pinnate moss of this group, ... Hypnum reptile matures its capsules much earlier than any of the three other ..."

8. Dragons of the Air: An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Harry Govier Seeley (1901)
"I will therefore briefly state how reptiles are defined in some regions of the skeleton, for in tracing the history of reptile life the bones are the ..."

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