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reptile
CEFRB1
/ˈɹɛp.taɪl/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
An animal such as a snake, lizard, or crocodile.
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noun
Extra detailAn animal belonging to either the class Reptilia or the class Amphibia.
Examples
A scalie is like a furry whose "fursona" is a reptile or amphibian.
A scaly is like a furry whose "fursona" is a reptile or amphibian.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsAny 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.
Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc.
A cold-blooded, non-winged vertebrate tetrapod animal, typically scaly and of a species that lays eggs, such as a lizard or turtle, or a snake.
More examples
In contextSmite his hard heart, and shake his reptile soul.
Prior to the 1990s, the non-mammalian synapsids were considered true reptiles.
a reptile race or crew reptile vices
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Origin
noun
From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).