reptilian

[ US /ɹɛpˈtɪɫjən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɛptˈɪli‍ən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to the class Reptilia
NOUN
  1. any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
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How To Use reptilian In A Sentence

  • A wide, drooling toothless grin split his flat face, and two yellow-red reptilian eyes stared covetously from his immense head.
  • It comes from the most primitive part of what evolutionary psychologists call the reptilian brain, the part of the brain that governs instincts, heartbeat and breathing. John Hope Bryant: The Problem With Short-Termism
  • ) `I'm sure you'll have the entire reptilian population of Canvey quaking in its scales at that,' Arthur growled. BEHINDLINGS
  • The tuatara are a powerful reptilian race, and their methods of battle are savage beyond compare.
  • This is a sequence of fossils which shows in great detail how the mammalian inner ear bones evolved from similar bones in the reptilian jaw.
  • All around him were life forms from across the galaxy; humans, humanoids, insectoids, reptilianoids, and others best left unmentioned.
  • At our study site, the predator guild includes avian, mammalian, and reptilian species.
  • Schindewolf "The first bird hatched from a reptilian egg. An Important Message
  • The weavers' primary reptilian enemies are the boomslang and the Cape cobra.
  • So on the other hand, this ichthyoid, reptilian, or mono-chondyloid ideal of the self-made man can only be reached, universally, by a nation which holds that poverty, either of purse or spirit, -- but especially the spiritual character of being [Greek: ptôchoi tô pneumati], is the lowest of degradations; and which believes that the desire of wealth is the first of manly and moral sentiments. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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