| 单词 | reptile |
| 释义 | reptile (once / 885 pages) n A reptile is one of those mostly scaly and slimy animals that are cold-blooded and have backbones. Lizards and turtles? Yep — both reptiles. Puppies and kittens? No way. There are many classes of animals. People are part of the mammal class. Another class is reptiles, which are all cold-blooded vertebrates (meaning they have backbones). Snakes, salamanders, frogs, turtles, and crocodiles are all reptiles. You'll see plenty of reptiles at the zoo, and you'll see replicas of some at a natural history museum — since dinosaurs were reptiles. WORD FAMILYreptile: reptiles, reptilian+/reptilian: reptilians USAGE EXAMPLESAnd that behavior, similar to living reptiles, suggested long incubation times, he said. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The finding suggests that, at least in terms of hatch times, dinosaurs were more like modern reptiles than birds. Science Magazine(Jan 02, 2017) Many less toothy animals, birds, reptiles, plants, fish and shells are legally protected. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) n any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms Syn|Hypo|Hyper reptilian anapsid, anapsid reptile primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles diapsid, diapsid reptilereptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye Diapsida, subclass Diapsidaused in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria synapsid, synapsid reptileextinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull chelonian, chelonian reptilea reptile of the order Chelonia Sphenodon punctatum, tuataraonly extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand saurianany of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs archosaur, archosaurian, archosaurian reptileextinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts crocodilian, crocodilian reptileextant archosaurian reptile protomammal, therapsidprobably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals ictodosaurintermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals pelycosaurlarge primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America edaphosaurusheavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic dimetrodoncarnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail ophidian, serpent, snakelimbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous craniate, vertebrate animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
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