Creeping or crawling; repent; reptant; reptatory; of or pertaining to the Reptilia, in any sense.Groveling; low; mean: as, a reptile race.n. A creeping animal; an animal that goes on its belly, or moves with small, short legs.n. Specifically An oviparous quadruped; a four-footed egg-laying animal: applied about the middle of the eighteenth century to the animals then technically called Amphibia, as frogs, toads, newts, lizards, crocodiles, and turtles; any amphibian.n. By restriction, upon the recognition of the divisions Amphibia and Reptilia, a scaly or pholidote reptile, as distinguished from a naked reptile; any snake, lizard, crocodile, or turtle; a member of the Reptilia proper; a saurian.n. A groveling, abject, or mean person: used in contempt.