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Loricate :: Loricate (n.) An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals..

Theriodontia :: Theriodontia (n. pl.) An extinct order of reptiles found in the Permian and Triassic formations in South Africa. In some respects they resembled carnivorous mammals. Called also Theromorpha.

Transpalatine :: Transpalatine (a.) Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.

Precoracoid :: Precoracoid (n.) The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

Laelaps :: Laelaps (n.) A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high..

Teleosaurus :: Teleosaurus (n.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout..

Ophidia :: Ophidia (n. pl.) The order of reptiles which includes the serpents.

Ornithosauria :: Ornithosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct flying reptiles; -- called also Pterosauria.

Reptile :: Reptile (a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs..

Phaneroglossal :: Phaneroglossal (a.) Having a conspicious tongue; -- said of certain reptiles and insects.

Sauropsida :: Sauropsida (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds..

Ichthyosaurus :: Ichthyosaurus (n.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -- so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oolitic, and Cretaceous formations..

Reptant :: Reptant (a.) Creeping; crawling; -- said of reptiles, worms, etc..

Amniota :: Amniota (n. pl.) That group of vertebrates which develops in its embryonic life the envelope called the amnion. It comprises the reptiles, the birds, and the mammals..

Reptile :: Reptile (n.) A groveling or very mean person.

Brontosaurus :: Brontosaurus (n.) A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

Scale :: Scale (n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid..

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

Procoelian :: Procoelian (n.) A reptile having procoelian vertebrae; one of the Procoelia.

Infralabial :: Infralabial (a.) Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.

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