reptile

rep·tile  (rptl, -tl)

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.

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[Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rptile, from neuter of Latin rptilis, creeping, from rptus, past participle of rpere, to creep.]

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reptile

Noun

1. a cold-blooded animal, such as a tortoise, snake, or crocodile, that has an outer covering of horny scales or plates and lays eggs

2. a contemptible grovelling person [Late Latin reptilis creeping]

reptilian adj

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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.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

reptile - any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms reptilian craniate, 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each eye Diapsida, subclass Diapsida - used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria synapsid, synapsid reptile - extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull

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reptile

Translations

reptile [ˈrɛptaɪl] n → reptil m

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reptile [ˈrɛptaɪl] n → reptile m

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reptile [ˈrɛptaɪl] n → Reptil nt

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reptile [ˈrɛptaɪl] n → rettile m