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• Some birds and reptiles, like dinosaurs, have a cnemial crest.From the entry cnemial
• The anaconda is an ovoviviparous reptile.From the entry ovoviviparous
• Some reptiles have a transpalatine bone.From the entry transpalatine
• The choristoderans were crocodile-like reptiles with long, narrow jaws used for catching fish.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 109. From the entry choristoderan
• The most striking marine reptiles are the fishlike or porpoiselike ichthyosaurs.2013, F. Crescitelli, The Visual System in Vertebrates, page 27. From the entry fishlike
• Gharial help crocodilians lay claim to being the ugliest reptiles, and perhaps the most ancient.2013, Eric Dinerstein, Discovering Big Cat Country: On the trail of tigers and snow leopards, unnumbered page. From the entry gharial
• "Non-avian reptiles" comprise an unnatural group used only for chapter convenience here.2012, Lance Grande, The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time, The University of Chicago Press, page 189. From the entry non-avian
• It has huge, sharp, carnivorous teeth in a wide mouth, reptile eyes, grayish-crocodiley skin.2008, Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette, “Tekno Comix”, in Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman, New York…. From the entry crocodiley
• Reptiles are known to harbor three important genera of rhabditids: Entomelas, Rhabdias, and Strongyloides.2007, David G. Baker, editor, Flynn's Parasites of Laboratory Animals, 2nd edition, page 187. From the entry rhabditid
• Superb predators, the crocodilians are reptiles, and the only survivors of the archosaurs that included dinosaurs.2001, F. Lynne Bachleda, Dangerous Wildlife in the Southeast, page 33. From the entry crocodilian
• Caimans are reptiles that are closely related to their Central and South American neighbors, the alligators.1995, Laurie Agopian, Extended Thematic Unit: Rain Forest, page 32. From the entry caiman
• Of all the vertebrates, the herptiles (reptiles and amphibians), mammals and birds predominate in terrestrial grassland ecosystems.1980, L. D. Harris, G. B. Bowman, “Vertebrate predator subsystem, chapter 6”, in Alicja I. Breymeyer, George M. Van Dyne, editors…. From the entry herptile
• He was standing unwearied in a lonely place among rocks with a dead reptile at his feet.1933, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “The Northern Dragon”, in The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and…. From the entry unwearied
• Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals.1932, John Arthur Thomson, Riddles of science, Ayer Publishing, page 824. From the entry vestige
• Women are traditionally hysterical in the presence of members of the reptile kingdom.1928 July 8, “Lizards and Snakes for Gowns, Gloves and Automobile Cushions; Eight Thousand Java Lizards Trapped in the Island Jungle, and…. From the entry snakephobia
• On the zaratan's back were hundreds of tiny green frogs nestled in the seaweed, with bat wings and long reptile tails.2019 October 8, Megan Linski, Alicia Rades, Hidden Legends, The Air Omen, Crystallite Publishing. From the entry zaratan
• Nodosaurs are ankylosaurid dinosaurs: armoured herbivorous reptiles that look like the love-child of a rhino and an army tank.2017 September 27, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian. From the entry nodosaur
• Also known as wildmeat or game meat, the term refers to non-domesticated mammals, reptiles, amphibians and birds hunted for food.2015 July 3, “As Ebola fears return, Congo-Brazzaville steps up fight against illegal bushmeat”, in The Guardian. From the entry wildmeat
• Reptiles are also a major food source.2008, Lee Gutteridge, The South African Bushveld: A Field Guide from the Waterberg, page 97. From the entry honey badger
• Includes the extinct mammal-like reptiles and the mammals.1997 — Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate Paleontology, 2nd ed.; ch 5, p 109. From the entry mammal-like reptile
• As Kerin came abreast of the reptile, the lizard opened its eyes, looked around, and rose on stumpy legs.1989, L. Sprague de Camp, The Honorable Barbarian, page 45. From the entry fangful
• All dinosaurs belonged to a group of reptiles called archosaurs.1975, The World of Dinosaurs, New York: Banner Press, Inc., page 8. From the entry bird-hipped
• Fused in most late reptiles (e.g., Figs. 69, 72).1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles. From the entry squamosal
• Even now the snake charmers apply a black stone on their bodies where they are wounded by the venomous reptile.1913, Girindranāth Mukhopādhyāya, The Surgical Instruments of the Hindus, volume I, Calcutta University, page 198. From the entry antidotary
• "Not a bird, my dear Roxton - not a bird." "A beast?" "No; a reptile - a dinosaur."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry dinosaur
• O, why, like the reptile, did his sorrow not latibulize?1908, Anson D. Eby, Showers of blessing, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, page 102. From the entry latibulize
• The predominance of archosaurs over other reptiles might be a consequence of their more advanced mode of locomotion compared with their relatives.2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological…. From the entry archosaur
• I will discuss non-avian reptiles first (turtles, lizards, snakes, and crocodilians) and leave description of the avian reptiles (birds) until the next major section.2012, Lance Grande, The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time, The University of Chicago Press, page 189. From the entry non-avian
• Other reptiles found in the district are the chamaeleon, geco and monitor lizard, the last getting extinct due to netting and shooting.1988, Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Aligarh, volume 20, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India: Government of Uttar Pradesh, →OCLC, page 15. From the entry gecko
• The reptile buried its fangs into the crown of the hat in a midair strike that slapped the Stetson to the floorboards between them.1983, J. D. Hardin, Heather, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry midair
• He doesn’t use the orthodox forked limb in his snake-killing pursuits, but just takes an ordinary stick and unafraidly flays the reptile.1937 April 21, “12-Year-Old Boy is Death To Rattlers”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel, volume 95, number 95, Santa Cruz, Calif., page three. From the entry unafraidly
• They are edentulous in all known reptiles except the Cotylosauria (Fig. 6), some Theromorpha, perhaps, certain "Pseudosuchia," Diaptosauria (Fig. 63), and Squamata.1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, “Chapter 1”, in The Osteology of the Reptiles. From the entry vomer
• Laudakia wui (Fig. 1), commonly known as Wui’s Rock Agama, is a reptile belonging to the genus Laudakia of the Agamidae family and endemic to Xizang of China¹.2024 December 21, Cong Wei, Yanchao Liu, Le Yang, Diancheng Yang, Shiyang Weng, “High-quality chromosome-scale genome assembly of Laudakia…. From the entry Bomê
• Hunting many of the other marine reptiles are the pliosaurs, short-necked and large-headed versions of plesiosaurs who appear to have had a general diet of anything that moved.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 138. From the entry pliosaur
• The guts of fossilized marine reptiles are packed with belemnites, and it's been theorized that some prehistoric sharks even died from the overconsumption of heavy belemnite shell guards.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry belemnite
• Reptile categories were (1) turtles and tortoises, (2) typhlopid and xenotyphlopid snakes, (3) lamprophiid snakes, (4) iguanid lizards, (5) geckos, (6) skinks, (7) gerrhosaurids, and (8) chameleons.2016 January 7, “Spatial Biodiversity Patterns of Madagascar's Amphibians and Reptiles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry xenotyphlopid
• During the Carboniferous some species of dipnoid fish had 30 million years to evolve into reptiles, unless new discoveries may point to other origins for reptiles.2014, Pietro Gaietto, Phylogenesis of Beauty. From the entry dipnoid
• Marine reptiles of the Mesozoic belong to the group known as the euryapsids, which are characterized by an opening in the skull high above the cheek region.2013, Ronald Martin, Earth's Evolving Systems: The History of Planet Earth, page 438. From the entry euryapsid

Meaning of reptile

1. 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.
2. noun Any member of the class Reptilia, including birds.
3. 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.

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How do you use reptile in a sentence?

Reptile is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Prior to the 1990s, the non-mammalian synapsids were considered true reptiles.”

What is a short sentence with reptile?

“Some reptiles have a transpalatine bone.”

What does reptile mean?

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.