'Reptile' definitions:
Definition of 'reptile'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms [syn: reptile, reptilian]
Definition of 'Reptile'
From: GCIDE
- Reptile \Rep"tile\, n.
- 1. (Zool.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The amphibians were formerly classed with Reptilia, and are still popularly called reptiles, though much more closely allied to the fishes. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A groveling or very mean person. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reptile'
From: GCIDE
- Reptile \Rep"tile\ (r?p"t?l;277), a. [F. reptile, L. reptilis, fr. repere, reptum, to creep; cf. Lith. reploti; perh. akin to L. serpere. Cf. Serpent.]
- 1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. [1913 Webster]
- There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- And dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reptile'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agama,
- alligator,
- amphibian,
- anguine,
- animal,
- anole,
- aquatic,
- atiptoe,
- batrachian,
- bearded lizard,
- beast,
- biped,
- blindworm,
- box turtle,
- butterfly agama,
- canine,
- cannibal,
- carnivore,
- cayman,
- chameleon,
- clawback,
- colubriform,
- cosmopolite,
- crawling,
- creature,
- creeping,
- crocodile,
- crocodilian,
- cur,
- diamondback,
- dinosaur,
- dog,
- dragon,
- false map turtle,
- feline,
- flying dragon,
- froggy,
- gator,
- gavial,
- gecko,
- Gila monster,
- girdle-tailed lizard,
- glass snake,
- gnawer,
- green turtle,
- groveler,
- hawksbill,
- hawksbill turtle,
- herbivore,
- hound,
- hyena,
- iguana,
- insect,
- insectivore,
- invertebrate,
- leatherback,
- lickspittle,
- lizard,
- lizardlike,
- mammal,
- mammalian,
- marsupial,
- marsupialian,
- matamata,
- minion,
- mongrel,
- monitor,
- mugger,
- omnivore,
- on all fours,
- on tippytoe,
- on tiptoe,
- ophidian,
- pig,
- polecat,
- primate,
- quadruped,
- repent,
- reptant,
- reptatorial,
- reptilelike,
- Reptilia,
- reptilian,
- reptiliform,
- reptiloid,
- rodent,
- ruminant,
- saurian,
- scavenger,
- sea turtle,
- serpent,
- serpentiform,
- serpentile,
- serpentine,
- serpentlike,
- serpentoid,
- skunk,
- slithering,
- snake,
- snakelike,
- snaky,
- soft-shelled turtle,
- stump tail,
- swine,
- teju,
- terrapin,
- tippytoe,
- tiptoe,
- tiptoeing,
- toad,
- toadeater,
- toadish,
- toady,
- tortoise,
- tuatara,
- turtle,
- ungulate,
- varmint,
- vermin,
- vertebrate,
- viper,
- viperiform,
- viperish,
- viperlike,
- viperoid,
- viperous,
- vipery,
- whelp,
- worm