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Definition of Reptilian
1. Noun. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms.
Generic synonyms: Craniate, Vertebrate
Group relationships: Class Reptilia, Reptilia
Specialized synonyms: Anapsid, Anapsid Reptile, Diapsid, Diapsid Reptile, Diapsida, Subclass Diapsida, Synapsid, Synapsid Reptile
2. Adjective. Of or relating to the class Reptilia.
Definition of Reptilian
1. a. Belonging to the reptiles.
2. n. One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
Definition of Reptilian
1. Adjective. Reptile-like. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or referring to reptiles. ¹
3. Adjective. (rfd-redundant) Having the characteristics of a reptile. ¹
4. Adjective. Treacherous. ¹
5. Noun. Reptile ¹
6. Noun. (context: ufology) One of a race of extraterrestrial shape-shifters purported to secretly control the world. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reptilian
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Reptilian
1.
Belonging to the reptiles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reptilian
Literary usage of Reptilian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"reptilian AGE. The Age of Reptiles is especially remarkable as the era of the
... the reptilian and Molluscan, and of one iu the Vegetable Kingdom, ..."
2. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1863)
"The Mesozoic or Medieval time in the Earth's history, comprises a single age
only,—the reptilian. reptilian AGE. The Age of Reptiles is especially ..."
3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1875)
"The Mesozoic or Mediaeval time in the Earth's history comprises a single age
only, — the reptilian. reptilian AGE. The Age of Reptiles is especially ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special by James Dwight Dana (1865)
"reptilian AGE. The Age of Reptiles is especially remarkable as the era of the
culmination and incipient decline of two great types in the Animal Kingdom, ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1864)
"On Parallel Relations of the Classes of Vertebrates, and on some Characteristics
of the reptilian Birds. II. The Classification of Animals based on the ..."
6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"reptilian life played a so much more important role in past ages of the earth
than now, ... The vast majority of reptilian types have become extinct. ..."
7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"I. On Parallel Relations of the Classes of Vertebrates, and on some Characteristics
of the reptilian Birds. II. The Classification of Animals based on the ..."
8. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"... in the sea, and in the air during the long reptilian Era of 12000000 years,
only five orders survive to-day, namely, the turtles (Testudinata), ..."
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