Reptile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • n. A person regarded as despicable or treacherous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.
  • n. A mean or grovelling person.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
  • adj. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar
  • n. An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.
  • n. One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.
  • n. A groveling or very mean person.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    craniate    vertebrate   
    Cross Reference
    creeping    abject    malevolent    treacherous    snake    crocodilian    Reptiles    herpetology   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    creeping    low    vulgar    lacertian    reptilian    dragon    hydr-   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    lizard    serpent    mammal    toad    spider    dinosaur    brute    insect    viper    crocodile