Look up: reptile

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   Reptile
   Reptiles meaning to creep) are a group of animals that have scales (or modified scales), breathe air, and usually lay eggs. The term reptile is loosely defined in everyday English to mean scaly, cold-blooded, egg-laying animals. In cladistics (a way of classifying life forms), the reptiles are more stictly defined and include the descendants of the most recent common ancestor of the turtles, lepidosaurs (lizards, snakes, tuataras), and archosaurs (crocodilians, dinosaurs, and birds). The mainten...
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   Reptile
   see 'reptilia'
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   reptile
   [n] - any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles and extinct forms
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   Reptile
   Definition (keystage 3) A geometric figure which can be dissected into identical smaller copies of itself.
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   Reptile
   Rep'tile adjective [ French reptile , Latin reptilis , from repere , reptum , to creep; confer Lithuanian reploti ; perhaps akin to Latin serpere . Confer Serpent .] 1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. 2. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. &#x ...
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   Reptile
   Rep'tile noun 1. (Zoology) 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. (Zoology) One of the ...
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   reptile
   1. <zoology> 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. <zoology> One of the Repti ...
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   reptile
   reptilian noun any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles and extinct forms
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   Reptile
   `Reptiles` are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have scaly bodies as opposed to hair or feathers; they represent an intermediate position in evolutionary development between amphibians and warm-blooded vertebrates, the birds and mammals. They are tetrapods and amniotes whose embryos are surrounded by an amniotic membrane, and members of the class `Sauropsida` inhabiting every continent with the exception of Antarctica. Today they are ...
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    Reptile
    • (a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. • (n.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like. • (n.) A groveling or very mean person. • (a.) Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. • (n...
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    reptile
    any member of the class Reptilia, a group of air-breathing vertebrates that have internal fertilization and scaly bodies rather than hair or ... [40 related articles]
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    Reptile
    Group of terrestrial vertebrate animals that includes turtles, tortoises, snakes, lizards, crocodiles, and alligators.
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    reptile
    Basic anatomy of a lizard An air-breathing, cold-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate with an outer covering of scales or plates and a bony skeleton; a member of the Class Reptilia. Examples include the lizard, crocodile, tortoise, and snake. The forelimbs of reptiles are jointed and typically five...
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    reptile
    reptile, name for the dry-skinned, usually scaly, cold-blooded vertebrates (see Chordata) of the order Reptilia. Reptiles are found in a variety of habitats throughout the warm and temperate regions (except on some islands), with the greatest variety in the tropics. Reptiles differ from other terres...
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