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- Dictionaryreptile/ˈrɛptʌɪl/
noun
- 1. a vertebrate animal of a class that includes snakes, lizards, crocodiles, turtles, and tortoises. They are distinguished by having a dry scaly skin and typically laying soft-shelled eggs on land.
- 2. a person regarded with loathing and contempt: informal, derogatory "are you contradicting me, you ignorant little reptile?"
adjective
- 1. belonging to a reptile or to the class of reptiles: "reptile eggs"
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21 hours ago · Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development. Living reptiles comprise four orders: Testudines (turtles), Crocodilia (crocodilians), Squamata (lizards and snakes), and Rhynchocephalia (the tuatara).
Sep 13, 2024 · A reptile is any member of the class Reptilia, the group of air-breathing vertebrates that have internal fertilization, amniotic development, and epidermal scales covering part or all of their body. The major groups of living reptiles are turtles, tuatara, lizards, snakes, and crocodiles.
Sep 14, 2024 · lizard, (suborder Sauria), any of more than 5,500 species of reptiles belonging in the order Squamata (which also includes snakes, suborder Serpentes). Lizards are scaly-skinned reptiles that are usually distinguished from snakes by the possession of legs, movable eyelids, and external ear openings.
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1 day ago · Frequency distributions for mean body sizes (snout-vent lengths = SVLs) of lizard species (a) found naturally within the Greater Sydney region (‘Greater Sydney species’, black bars), (b) represented in the rescue dataset (i.e. recorded at least once; ‘NPWS rescues’, dark grey bars) and (c) belonging to the 10 most commonly rescued species (‘most commonly rescued (NPWS)’, light grey bars).
21 hours ago · Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes (/ sɜːrˈpɛntiːz /). [2] . Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales.
Sep 23, 2024 · snake, (suborder Serpentes), any of more than 3,400 species of reptiles distinguished by their limbless condition and greatly elongated body and tail. Classified with lizards in the order Squamata, snakes represent a lizard that, over the course of evolution, has undergone structural reduction, simplification, and loss as well as specialization.
1 day ago · Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea), sometimes called marine turtles, [3] are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira. The seven existing species of sea turtles are the flatback, green, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead, Kemp's ridley, and olive ridley.
