Reptilian

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reptilian \Rep*til"i*an\ (-an), a.
     Belonging to the reptiles.
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     {Reptilian age} (Geol.), that part of geological time
        comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods,


        and distinguished as that era in which the class of
        reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also
        the {Secondary} or {Mezozoic} age.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reptilian \Rep*til"i*an\, n. (Zool.)
     One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reptilian
       adj : of or relating to the class Reptilia
       n : any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including
           tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles
           and extinct forms [syn: {reptile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "reptilian":
     abject, abominable, alligator, amphibian, anguine, arrant,
     atrocious, base, batrachian, beggarly, cheesy, colubriform,
     contemptible, crawling, creeping, crocodile, crocodilian, crummy,
     debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dinosaur, dirty,
     disgusting, execrable, flagrant, foul, froggy, fulsome, gator,
     grave, gross, heinous, little, lizard, lizardlike, low, low-down,
     lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, miserable, monstrous, nefarious,
     obnoxious, odious, ophidian, paltry, petty, poky, poor, rank,
     repent, reptant, reptile, reptilelike, reptiliform, reptiloid,
     saurian, scabby, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, serpentiform,
     serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, shabby, shoddy,
     slithering, small, snakelike, snaky, squalid, terrapin, toadish,
     tortoise, turtle, unmentionable, vile, viperiform, viperish,
     viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, wretched