Reptile

What do we mean by reptile?

Any of various usually cold-blooded egg-laying vertebrates often grouped in the class Reptilia, having dry skin covered with scales or horny plates and breathing by means of lungs, and including the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles. In some classification systems, birds are considered to be reptiles because they are descended from reptilian dinosaurs. noun

A person regarded as contemptible or obsequious. noun

Creeping or crawling; repent; reptant; reptatory; of or pertaining to the Reptilia, in any sense.

Groveling; low; mean: as, a reptile race.

A creeping animal; an animal that goes on its belly, or moves with small, short legs. noun

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. noun

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. noun

A groveling, abject, or mean person: used in contempt. noun

Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. adjective

Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar adjective

An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like. noun

One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia. noun

A groveling or very mean person. noun

A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia. noun

A mean or grovelling person. noun

Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms noun

A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.

A mean or grovelling person.

Words that are spelled similarly to reptile:
reptile, rettile, reptil, retile.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word reptile:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe reptile:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective reptile:
life, house, eggs, skin, press, skins, flesh, brain, medicine, eyes, bird, species, bones, form, mistress, fauna, scales, class, leather, family, ancestors, tracks, world, blood, type, evolution, fossils, boy, fish, kind, vices, tribes, cries, embryos, blazon, populations, specimens, ecology, brains, forms, bites, birds, care, head, teeth, clan, venoms, intervenes, nerve, fund, demons, feet, end, determination, book, structure, journalism, houses, keeper, insects, magazines, reptiles, families, shows, breeding, tooth, animal, gardens, hands, phylogeny, room, stock, journalist, monarchy, tribe, mammals, epidermis, limbs, transition, heads, leathers, diversity, pests, bone, spasm, hide, envenomations, poisons, dragon, venom, eaters, associated, hearts.

Consonant match to reptile:
ripe till.

Words that sound like reptile:
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