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单词 Reptilia
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Reptilia

/rɛpˈtɪlɪə/
noun
Treated as plural. Originally: those animals which creep or crawl. In later use (Zoology ): the class of vertebrates which comprises the reptiles (snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, and many extinct forms).
  • The Linnaean order Reptilia comprised all the members of the class ‘Amphibia’ having legs, which excluded the snakes and other legless forms but included the frogs and toads.From a cladistic point of view the taxon is invalid because it is paraphyletic, with two groups of non-reptiles (the birds and mammals) evolving from it. The group is therefore regarded as an evolutionary grade rather than a clade..

Origin

Early 17th century; earliest use found in Owen Felltham (?1602–1668), essayist and poet. From post-classical Latin reptilia, plural of reptile reptile.

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