REPTILE Definition & Meaning | 亚洲网紅露点

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reptile

[ rep-tahyl, -til ]

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noun

any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
(loosely) any of various animals that crawl or creep.
a groveling, mean, or despicable person.

adjective

of or resembling a reptile; creeping or crawling.
groveling, mean, or despicable.

reptile

/ 藞谤蓻辫迟补瑟濒 /

noun

any of the cold-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Reptilia , characterized by lungs, an outer covering of horny scales or plates, and young produced in amniotic eggs. The class today includes the tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, and crocodiles; in Mesozoic times it was the dominant group, containing the dinosaurs and related forms
a grovelling insignificant person
you miserable little reptile!

adjective

creeping, crawling, or squirming
grovelling or insignificant; mean; contemptible

reptile

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.

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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

谤别辫路迟颈濒别路濒颈办别 adjective
谤别辫路迟颈路濒辞颈诲 [rep, -tl-oid], adjective

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of reptile¹

1350鈥�1400; Middle English reptil < Late Latin 谤脓辫迟颈濒别, noun use of neuter of 谤脓辫迟颈濒颈蝉 creeping, equivalent to Latin 谤脓辫迟 ( us ) (past participle of 谤脓辫别谤别 to creep) + -ilis -ile

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of reptile¹

C14: from Late Latin reptilis creeping, from Latin 谤脓辫别谤别 to crawl

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By the time the fire was out it had destroyed 27,000 trees as well as killing hundreds of reptiles.

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"This is a critical time of year for our native wildlife 鈥� with birds nesting and other animals such as amphibians and reptiles coming out of winter dormancy and starting to breed."

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According to a leading dataset of animal and plant observations, the fence lizard is the most commonly spotted reptile in the U.S.; and the top species in California.

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Zoo staff were thrilled to finally meet the long green additions, which were seized by Spanish authorities in a 2017 bust of more than 600 illegally trafficked reptiles.

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While on the Morne Mountains, in Northern Ireland, invertebrates and ground dwelling animals like reptiles were "simply being torched alive".

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reptant reptiles

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