Definition of reptile

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Reptile (a.) Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices..

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Prefrontal :: Prefrontal (a.) Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes..
Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl..
Sauropsida :: Sauropsida (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds..
Loricate :: Loricate (n.) An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals..
Reptile :: Reptile (a.) Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices..
Reptile :: Reptile (a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs..
Rhynchocephala :: Rhynchocephala (n. pl.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia..
Lore :: Lore (n.) The space between the eye and bill, in birds, and the corresponding region in reptiles and fishes..
Reptant :: Reptant (a.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc..
Reptile :: Reptile (n.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like..
Ovoviviparous :: Ovoviviparous (a.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles..
Ophiophagous :: Ophiophagous (a.) Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.
Monocondyla :: Monocondyla (n. pl.) A group of vertebrates, including the birds and reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the Sauropsida..
Reptile :: Reptile (n.) A groveling or very mean person.
Mosasaurus :: Mosasaurus (n.) A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands..
Pterodactyl :: Pterodactyl (n.) An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.
Proterosaurus :: Proterosaurus (n.) An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus.
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, reptile is an abstract or general name..
Precoracoid :: Precoracoid (n.) The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.
Plesiosauria :: Plesiosauria (n. pl.) An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also Sauropterygia..
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