reptile

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.
2. isim 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.
3. isim An animal belonging to either the class Reptilia or the class Amphibia.
4. isim A member of the class Reptilia, either including birds, or only those ectothermic sauropsid members with scales that typically lay eggs.
5. isim An ectothermic, scaly animal, whether sauropsid or synapsid, of the clade Amniota.

   “Prior to the 1990s, the non-mammalian synapsids were considered true reptiles.”

6. isim Any animal belonging to the clade Sauropsida, including those scaly animals as well as birds.
7. isim An abject, grovelling, loathsome or repulsive person.

   “This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.”

8. sıfat Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
9. sıfat Grovelling; low; vulgar.

   “a reptile race or crew    reptile vices”