REPTILE
\ɹˈɛpta͡ɪl], \ɹˈɛptaɪl], \ɹ_ˈɛ_p_t_aɪ_l]\
Definitions of REPTILE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.
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An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.
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One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.
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A groveling or very mean person.
By Oddity Software
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Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.
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An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.
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One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.
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A groveling or very mean person.
By Noah Webster.
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A cold-blooded, airbreathing, vertebrate animal that creeps or crawls on its belly or on short legs, as the snake, lizard, turtle, alligator, crocodile; a mean, groveling person.
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Creeping; crawling; groveling or cringing; low; base.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Moving or crawling on the belly or with very short legs: grovelling: low.
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An animal that moves or crawls on its belly or with short legs: a grovelling, low person.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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