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Look up: reptile

  1. 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 ...
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  2. reptile
    [n] - any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles and extinct forms
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  3. 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 ...
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  4. 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 ...
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  5. 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...
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  6. 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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  7. 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...
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  8. 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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  9. Reptile
    Group of terrestrial vertebrate animals that includes turtles, tortoises, snakes, lizards, crocodiles, and alligators.
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  10. 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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  11. Reptile
    Reptile is British slang for a despicable person.
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  12. Reptile
    Reptile is British slang for a despicable person.
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  13. reptile
    Any member of a class (Reptilia) of vertebrates. Unlike amphibians, reptiles have hard-shelled, yolk-filled eggs that are laid on land and from which fully formed young are born. Some snakes and lizards retain their eggs and give birth to live young. Reptiles are cold-blooded, and their s...
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  14. reptile
    Members of the class reptilia. Reptiles are characterized by thick skin that has scutes or scales. Reptiles tend to be terrestrialy based, and do not require water for their normal life cycle.
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  15. Reptile
    `Reptiles` are animals in the (Linnaean) class Reptilia. They are characterized by breathing air, laying shelled eggs (except for some vipers and constrictor snakes that give live birth), and having skin covered in scales and/or scutes. Reptiles are classically viewed as having a "cold-blooded&...
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  16. Reptile
    (Mortal Kombat) `Reptile ` is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat series of video games. Created for Midway Games by John Tobias and Ed Boon, Reptile debuted in Mortal Kombat as a hidden boss and appeared in subsequent titles as a playable character. The character has als...
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  17. Reptile
    (disambiguation) A `reptile` is an animal of the taxonomic class Reptilia, including crocodilians, snakes, lizards and turtles. `Reptile` or `Reptilia` may also refer to: In `music`: See also:
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  18. Reptile
    (album) `Reptile` is a studio album by British musician Eric Clapton, released by Reprise Records on 13 March 2001.<ref name="AM1" /> The album was produced by Eric Clapton with Simon Climie and is Eric`s first album to feature keyboard work by Billy Preston and background...
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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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