Synonyms for reptile
ˈrɛp tɪl, -taɪlrep·tile

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1. reptile, reptiliannoun

   any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms

   Synonyms:
   reptilian

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1. • Vertebrate

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1. List of paraphrases for "reptile":

   reptiles, reptilian

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1. Edmund Burke:

   There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

2. Chicago PD spokesman Anthony Gugliemi:

   State reptile specialists say it is between 4 and 5 feet long.

3. Kristine Bohmann:

   In just 40 samples, we detected 49 species spanning mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish, in the Rainforest House( at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark) we even detected the guppies in the pond, the two-toed sloth and the boa. When sampling air in just one outdoor site, we detected many of the animals with access to an outdoor enclosure in that part of Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark, for example kea, ostrich and rhino.

4. Arthur Georges:

   We believe that after the master sex gene on the sex chromosomes does its work, a cascade of gene regulatory processes (those governing development) is initiated leading to a male or a female hatchling reptile, for the most part, these regulatory processes are buffered in some way from varying temperatures in the nest, but only to a point. At high temperatures, the control of the master sex genes is eroded, and temperature brings in its influence.

5. Lucas Legendre:

   The egg belonged to an individual that was at least 23 feet long -- a giant marine reptile.