noun. Any of various usually cold-blooded egg-laying vertebrates often grouped in the class Reptilia, having dry skin covered with scales or horny plates and breathing by means of lungs, and including the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles. In some classification systems, birds are considered to be reptiles because they are descended from reptilian dinosaurs.

noun. A person regarded as contemptible or obsequious.

Creeping or crawling; repent; reptant; reptatory; of or pertaining to the Reptilia, in any sense.

Groveling; low; mean: as, a reptile race.

noun. A creeping animal; an animal that goes on its belly, or moves with small, short legs.

noun. Specifically An oviparous quadruped; a four-footed egg-laying animal: applied about the middle of the eighteenth century to the animals then technically called Amphibia, as frogs, toads, newts, lizards, crocodiles, and turtles; any amphibian.

noun. By restriction, upon the recognition of the divisions Amphibia and Reptilia, a scaly or pholidote reptile, as distinguished from a naked reptile; any snake, lizard, crocodile, or turtle; a member of the Reptilia proper; a saurian.

noun. A groveling, abject, or mean person: used in contempt.

noun. An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.

noun. One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.

noun. A groveling or very mean person.

adjective. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

adjective. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar

noun. A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.

noun. A mean or grovelling person.

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

"By the way, nothing cladistically out-of-line with the term reptile, so long as we agree that Reptilia is a clade in which case it includes Aves and excludes Synapsida of which mammals are part."

Reptiles  abject  creeping  crocodilian  herpetology  

Reptilia  mammal-like reptile  reptilian  

craniate  vertebrate  

anapsid  anapsid reptile  diapsid  diapsid reptile  diapsida  

ape  beast  beetle  boar  brute  

Gila monster  Reptilia  agama  alligator  amphibian