1.
[syn: reptile, reptilian]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. of or relating to the class Reptilia;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reptilian \Rep*til"i*an\, n. (Zool.)
One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reptilian \Rep*til"i*an\ (-an), a.
Belonging to the reptiles.
[1913 Webster]
Reptilian age (Geol.), that part of geological time
comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods,
and distinguished as that era in which the class of
reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also
the Secondary or Mezozoic age.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
reptilian
adj 1: of or relating to the class Reptilia
n 1: any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including
tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators,
crocodiles, and extinct forms [syn: reptile, reptilian]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "reptilian":
abject, abominable, alligator, amphibian, anguine, arrant,
atrocious, base, batrachian, beggarly, cheesy, colubriform,
contemptible, crawling, creeping, crocodile, crocodilian, crummy,
debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dinosaur, dirty,
disgusting, execrable, flagrant, foul, froggy, fulsome, gator,
grave, gross, heinous, little, lizard, lizardlike, low, low-down,
lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, miserable, monstrous, nefarious,
obnoxious, odious, ophidian, paltry, petty, poky, poor, rank,
repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptiliform, reptiloid,
saurian, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, serpentiform,
serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, shabby, shoddy,
slithering, small, snakelike, snaky, squalid, terrapin, toadish,
tortoise, turtle, unmentionable, vile, viperiform, viperish,
viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, wretched