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Definition of 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
Definition of Reptilia
1. n. pl. A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
Definition of Reptilia
1. Noun. (plural of reptilium) ¹
2. Noun. (plural of reptilian) (Animals of the class ''Reptilia'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reptilia
1. reptilium [n] - See also: reptilium
Medical Definition of Reptilia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Reptilia
Literary usage of Reptilia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"Oppel || opposed the ' Batraciens ' to the other reptilia, as can be seen from
... We see, that Latreille divides the reptilia in two groups, without giving ..."
2. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"Cope, ED, Synopsis of the extinct Batrachia, reptilia and Aves of North ...
On the homologies of the posterior cranial arches in the reptilia (ibid. vol. ..."
3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"CLASS reptilia. GENERAL STRUCTURE. WITH the Reptiles we enter upon the consideration
of the two classes which, from the possession of many common ch have ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1894)
"In a paper in which I endeavor to trace the homologías of the cranial bars of
the reptilia,* I ascribe f to the Sauropterygia a single ..."
5. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1871)
"The province Sauropsida is divisible into the two classes, reptilia and Aves.
All reptilia, so far as their organization is known to us, are distinguished ..."
6. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1881)
"reptilia. THE formation of the germinal layers in the reptilia is very ...
The ovum has in all reptilia a very similar structure to that in Birds. ..."
7. Reports on the Progress of Zoology and Botany, 1841, 1842 by Ray Society, Heinrich Friedrich Link (1845)
"reptilia from p. 41 to 45. The species are not described, ... Among the twenty-six
reptilia, are two Tortoises, three Lizards, seven Snakes (among which is ..."
8. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"reptilia. THE formation of the germinal layers in the reptilia is very ...
The ovum has in all reptilia a very similar structure to that in Birds. ..."
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