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Switchman, so named from the large serpentine letter S on membership pins of the Switchman's Union of North America. Sometimes called reptile or serpent
Reptiles is slang for footwear made from dead reptile skin, such as snakeskin or crocodile−skin.
Reptile is British slang for a despicable person.
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Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
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One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.
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Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.
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A naked fleshy, and usually wrinkled and highly colored, process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile.
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The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
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Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
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An extinct order of reptiles found in the Permian and Triassic formations in South Africa. In some respects they resembled carnivorous mammals. Called also Theromorpha.
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A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.
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A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.
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Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
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A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds.
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A large South American lizard (Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.
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An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates.
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Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae.
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Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
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In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.
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Situated beyond or outside the palatine bone; -- said of a bone in the skull of some reptiles.
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Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds.
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Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.
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A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
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