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REPTILIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
Synonyms:
reptile; reptilian
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("reptilian" is a kind of...):
craniate; vertebrate (animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reptilian"):
anapsid; anapsid reptile (primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles)
diapsid; diapsid reptile (reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye)
Diapsida; subclass Diapsida (used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria)
synapsid; synapsid reptile (extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull)
Holonyms ("reptilian" is a member of...):
class Reptilia; Reptilia (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)
Derivation:
reptilian (of or relating to the class Reptilia)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the class Reptilia
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Reptilia (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)
Derivation:
Reptilia (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)
reptilian (any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms)
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