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Definition of Class Reptilia
1. Noun. Class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals.
Group relationships: Craniata, Subphylum Craniata, Subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata
Member holonyms: Reptile, Reptilian, Anapsida, Subclass Anapsida, Lepidosauria, Subclass Lepidosauria, Archosauria, Subclass Archosauria, Subclass Synapsida, Synapsida
Generic synonyms: Class
Derivative terms: Reptilian
Literary usage of Class Reptilia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"We may then say that the cat, as a MAMMAL, differs from the whole class REPTILIA
in the following characters:— (1) There is a petrous bone, and a mandible ..."
2. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"... lies upon the duodenum ; and the cystic about half an inch further on.
A process of pancreas runs up and is joined to the spleen. [Class REPTILIA, Cuv. ..."
3. General Zoology by Arthur Sperry Pearse (1917)
"CHAPTER XXIV SUBPHYLUM VERTEBRATA, class Reptilia Reptiles are cold-blooded,
scaly vertebrates, which breathe by means of lungs. The body is never soft and ..."
4. Zoology, Descriptive and Practical by Buel Preston Colton (1903)
"class Reptilia. THERE are four principal forms of reptiles, represented by the
lizard, snake, turtle, and alligator. THE LIZARDS. ..."
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