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Definition of Reptilian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the class Reptilia.

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

Definition of Reptilian

1. a. Belonging to the reptiles.

2. n. One of the Reptilia; a reptile.

Definition of Reptilian

1. Adjective. Reptile-like. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or referring to reptiles. ¹

3. Adjective. (rfd-redundant) Having the characteristics of a reptile. ¹

4. Adjective. Treacherous. ¹

5. Noun. Reptile ¹

6. Noun. (context: ufology) One of a race of extraterrestrial shape-shifters purported to secretly control the world. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reptilian

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Medical Definition of Reptilian

1. Belonging to the reptiles. Reptilian age, that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age. One of the Reptilia; a reptile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reptilian

repræsenting repræsents reps reptant reptantia reptation reptatory reptilase reptile reptile family

reptile genus reptile room reptilelike reptiles reptilia reptilian (current term) reptilianness reptilians reptilic reptilium

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Literary usage of Reptilian

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

1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"reptilian AGE. The Age of Reptiles is especially remarkable as the era of the ... the reptilian and Molluscan, and of one iu the Vegetable Kingdom, ..."

2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1863)
"The Mesozoic or Medieval time in the Earth's history, comprises a single age only,—the reptilian. reptilian AGE. The Age of Reptiles is especially ..."

3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"The Mesozoic or Mediaeval time in the Earth's history comprises a single age only, — the reptilian. reptilian AGE. The Age of Reptiles is especially ..."

4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1865)
"reptilian AGE. The Age of Reptiles is especially remarkable as the era of the culmination and incipient decline of two great types in the Animal Kingdom, ..."

5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1864)
"On Parallel Relations of the Classes of Vertebrates, and on some Characteristics of the reptilian Birds. II. The Classification of Animals based on the ..."

6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"reptilian life played a so much more important role in past ages of the earth than now, ... The vast majority of reptilian types have become extinct. ..."

7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"I. On Parallel Relations of the Classes of Vertebrates, and on some Characteristics of the reptilian Birds. II. The Classification of Animals based on the ..."

8. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"... in the sea, and in the air during the long reptilian Era of 12000000 years, only five orders survive to-day, namely, the turtles (Testudinata), ..."

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