Definitions for reptile

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reptile rep·tile

Spelling: [rep-til, -tahyl]

IPA: /ˈrɛp tɪl, -taɪl/

Reptile is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in reptile (eeilprt).

Definitions for reptile

noun

1. any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
2. (loosely) any of various animals that crawl or creep.
3. a groveling, mean, or despicable person.

adjective

1. of or resembling a reptile; creeping or crawling.
2. groveling, mean, or despicable.

Origin of reptile

1350-1400; Middle English reptil Late Latin rēptile, noun use of neuter of rēptilis creeping, equivalent to Latin rēpt(us) (past participle of rēpere to creep) + -ilis -il

Examples for reptile

A reptile hatching from an egg must not cry out for its mother, or else it will be readily detected by predators and eaten.

He had the crawl of the reptile,—he had, also, its poison and its fangs.

Pedestrians would take turtles for walks and let the reptile set the pace.

In 1915 Thorpe started also playing and coaching the “reptile sport” of professional football in Canton, Ohio.

Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave.

I started, as he said this, as if I had been stung by a reptile.

The Indians happily observed the reptile; and knowing what it indicated, awoke him.

So the allantois of the reptile has become the placenta of the mammal.

If nothing but its bones had been found it would have been called a reptile.

Her voice hissed at me with all the venom of a reptile enraged.