REPTILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reptile mean? 

• REPTILE (noun)
  The noun REPTILE has 1 sense:

1. any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms

  Familiarity information: REPTILE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPTILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

reptile; reptilian

Hypernyms ("reptile" is a kind of...):

craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reptile"):

anapsid; anapsid reptile (primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles)

diapsid; diapsid reptile (reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye)

Diapsida; subclass Diapsida (used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria)

synapsid; synapsid reptile (extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull)

Holonyms ("reptile" is a member of...):

class Reptilia; Reptilia (class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals)

 Context examples 

Birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals have evolved diverse lung structures; air flows through them in complicated ways.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)

It is located beneath the crop in birds and reptiles.

(Gizzard, NCI Thesaurus)

It’s one of the only good skeletons of one of these ocean reptiles from the middle part of the Jurassic Period.

(Sea Monster Swam Oceans 170 Million Years Ago, Voanews)

One snake can be scary enough, but a new study suggests some of the slithering reptiles hunt for prey in groups.

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

There are 216 new species of plants, 93 fishes, 32 amphibians, 19 reptiles, one bird, 20 mammals (two of them fossils).

(Report unveils 381 new plant and animal species in Amazon, Agência Brasil)

According to the researchers, these findings apply to other animals too, so impacts can also be expected for birds, reptiles and amphibians.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)

Chromatophores (large pigment cells of fish, amphibia, reptiles and many invertebrates) which contain melanin.

(Murine Melanophores, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

They proved similar to the hatching lines in today's reptiles, and to neonatal growth lines in extant mammals.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

Common causes include trauma due to accidents, insect or reptile bites, severe cold exposure or pathological conditions such as infarctions or blood dyscrasias.

(Ischemic necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

The large pigment cells of fish, amphibia, reptiles and many invertebrates which actively disperse and aggregate their pigment granules.

(Chromatophore, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)