reptile meaning in Sanskrit
सरीसृप sarīsṛpa
/ˈɹɛp.taɪl//ˈɹɛp.taɪl/
reptile in Sanskrit: सरीसृप (sarīsṛpa). In English, reptile means a (typically scaly and egg-laying) cold-blooded vertebrate tetrapod animal, of the class Reptilia (excluding birds), such as a lizard, turtle, snake, crocodile, alligator, etc.
Sanskrit words for reptile
- a cold-blooded vertebrate
- सरीसृप sarīsṛpa
English meaning of reptile
- noun A (typically scaly and egg-laying) cold-blooded vertebrate tetrapod animal, of the class Reptilia (excluding birds), such as a lizard, turtle, snake, crocodile, alligator, etc.
- noun Any member of the class Reptilia, including birds.
- noun Any creeping or crawling animal, one that moves along close to the ground on its belly or on short legs, such as a lizard, snake, salamander, frog, toad, or scorpion.
- noun An animal belonging to either the class Reptilia or the class Amphibia.
reptile in a sentence
- Prior to the 1990s, the non-mammalian synapsids were considered true reptiles.
- a reptile race or crew reptile vices
Synonyms of reptile
reptile in other languages
- reptile in Hindi
- reptile in Tamil
- reptile in Marathi
- reptile in Urdu
- reptile in Bengali
- reptile in Telugu
- reptile in Malayalam
- reptile in Kannada
- reptile in Punjabi
- reptile in Gujarati
- reptile in Odia
- reptile in Nepali
- reptile in Tagalog
- reptile in Arabic
- reptile in Malay
- reptile in Indonesian
- reptile in Thai
- reptile in Vietnamese
- reptile in Myanmar
Questions about reptile in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of reptile in Sanskrit?
- Reptile in Sanskrit is सरीसृप (sarīsṛpa).
- reptile इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Reptile: सरीसृप (sarīsṛpa).
- What does reptile mean in English?
- Reptile means a (typically scaly and egg-laying) cold-blooded vertebrate tetrapod animal, of the class Reptilia (excluding birds), such as a lizard, turtle, snake, crocodile, alligator, etc.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: reptile (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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