rep·tile (r p t l , -t l)n. 1. Any of various cold-blooded, usually egg-laying vertebrates of the class Reptilia, such as a snake, lizard, crocodile, turtle, or dinosaur, having an external covering of scales or horny plates and breathing by means of lungs. 2. A person regarded as despicable or treacherous. [Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin r  ptile, from neuter of Latin rptilis, creeping, from rptus, past participle of rpere, to creep.] |
reptile [ˈrɛptaɪl]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) any of the cold-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Reptilia, characterized by lungs, an outer covering of horny scales or plates, and young produced in amniotic eggs. The class today includes the tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, and crocodiles; in Mesozoic times it was the dominant group, containing the dinosaurs and related forms
2. a grovelling insignificant person you miserable little reptile!
adj
1. creeping, crawling, or squirming
2. grovelling or insignificant; mean; contemptible
[from Late Latin reptilis creeping, from Latin rēpere to crawl]
| reptile (rptl) Any of various cold-blooded vertebrates of the class Reptilia, having skin covered with scales or horny plates, breathing air with lungs, and usually having a three-chambered heart. Unlike amphibians, whose eggs are fertilized outside the female body, reptiles reproduce by eggs that are fertilized inside the female. Though once varied, widespread, and numerous, reptilian lineages, including the pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and dinosaurs, have mostly become extinct (though birds are living descendants of dinosaurs). The earliest reptiles were the cotylosaurs (or stem reptiles) of the late Mississippian or early Pennsylvanian Period, from which mammals evolved. Modern reptiles include crocodiles, snakes, turtles, and lizards. |
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  reptile - any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct formscraniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium class Reptilia, Reptilia - class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals anapsid, anapsid reptile - primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles diapsid, diapsid reptile - reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye Diapsida, subclass Diapsida - used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria synapsid, synapsid reptile - extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull |
reptile
noun
Reptiles
adder, agama, agamid, alligator, amphisbaena, anaconda or (Caribbean) camoodi, anole, asp, bandy-bandy, blacksnake, blind snake, blue racer, bluetongue, boa, boa constrictor, boomslang, box turtle, brown snake, bull snake or gopher snake, bushmaster, carpet snake or python, cayman or caiman, cerastes, chameleon, chuckwalla, cobra, cobra de capello, constrictor, copperhead, coral snake, crocodile, death adder, diamondback, diamondback terrapin, or diamondback turtle, diamond snake, dugite, elapid, fer-de-lance, flying lizard or flying dragon, frilled lizard, gaboon viper, galliwasp, garter snake, gavial, gharial, or garial, gecko, giant tortoise, Gila monster, glass snake, goanna, grass snake, green turtle, habu, harlequin snake, hawksbill or hawksbill turtle, hognose snake or puff adder, hoop snake, horned toad or lizard, horned viper, iguana, indigo snake, jew lizard, bearded lizard, or bearded dragon, kabaragoya or Malayan monitor, king cobra or hamadryad, king snake, Komodo dragon or Komodo lizard, krait, leatherback or (Brit.) leathery turtle, leguan, lizard, loggerhead or loggerhead turtle, mamba, massasauga, milk snake, moloch, monitor, mud turtle, perentie or perenty, pit viper, puff adder, python, racer, rat snake, rattlesnake or (U.S. & Canad. informal) rattler, ringhals, rock snake or rock python, sand lizard, sand viper, sea snake, sidewinder, skink, slowworm or blindworm, smooth snake, snake, snapping turtle, soft-shelled turtle, swift, taipan, terrapin, tiger snake, tokay, tortoise, tree snake, tuatara or (technical) sphenodon, turtle, viper, wall lizard, water moccasin, moccasin, or cottonmouth, water snake, whip snake, worm lizard Translations
reptile
adj → Reptilien-, reptilartig; reptile house → Reptilienhaus nt; reptile species → Reptilienart f
n reptile [ˈreptail]
any of the group of cold-blooded animals to which snakes, lizards, crocodiles etc belong. reptiel زاحِف влечуго plaz krybdyr; reptil das Reptil ερπετό reptil roomaja خزنده matelija reptile זוֹחֵל कीड़ा gmaz, reptil csúszómászó reptil skriðdÿr rettile は虫類 파충류 roplys reptilis; rāpulis reptilia reptiel krypdyr gad réptil reptilă рептилия plaz plazilec reptil reptil, kräldjur สัตว์เลื้อยคลาน sürüngen 爬行動物，爬蟲 плазун, рептилія رینگنے والا جانور loài bò sát 爬行动物
adj repˈtilian [-ˈti-]
reptielagtig من الزَحّافات влечуго plazí krybdyrsagtig; krybdyr- Reptilien-... ερπετοειδής, ερπετόμορφος de los reptiles lömitav, roomajalik خزنده؛ پست فطرت matelija- reptilien זוֹחֵל सरीसृप का koji se odnosi na gmazove csúszómászó melata skriðdÿrs- di rettile, dei rettili は虫類の 파충류의 ropliams būdingas reptiļa-; rāpuļa- sejenis reptilia kruipend krypdyrs- charakterystyczny dla gada réptil de reptilă; specific reptilei пресмыкающийся charakteristický pre plazy plazilski reptilski reptilartad, reptil- เกี่ยวกับสัตว์เลื้อยคลาน; เลวทราม sürüngen 爬行動物的，爬蟲的 такий, що належить до рептилій حشراتی thuộc bò sát 爬行动物的
reptile → زواحف plaz krybdyr Reptil ερπετό reptil matelija reptile gmaz rettile 爬虫類 파충류 reptiel krypdyr gad réptil рептилия reptil สัตว์เลื้อยคลาน sürüngen loài bò sát 爬行动物
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