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11Reptile — Reptiles …
12Reptile — Taxobox fossil range = Carboniferous Recent name = Reptiles image width = 251px image caption = A Rhinoceros Iguana, Cyclura cornuta regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata subphylum = Vertebrata classis = Reptilia classis authority = Laurenti, 1768… …
13REPTILE — adj. des deux genres Qui rampe, qui se traîne sur le ventre. Animal reptile. Insecte reptile. Il est plus ordinairement substantif masculin ; et alors il se dit, non seulement de Tous les animaux qui n ont point de pieds, et qui rampent… …
14reptile — (rè pti l ) adj. 1° Qui rampe. Insecte reptile. • La gent reptile et toute son espèce, LA FONT. Petit chien.. • Les animaux reptiles sont d une autre fabrique [que le castor, le renard], FÉN. Exist. 9. Fig. • Hé bien ! vit on jamais un …
15reptile — I. noun Etymology: Middle English reptil, from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French reptile (feminine), from Late Latin reptile (neuter), from neuter of reptilis creeping, from Latin reptus, past participle of repere to crawl; akin to… …
16reptile — People who are considered to be repulsive have regularly been described as reptiles since at least the eighteenth century. Fielding refers in Tom Jones to a ‘reptile of a critic’, for instance. ‘Avoid my sight, thou reptile,’ is said by Dr… …
17reptile */ — UK [ˈreptaɪl] / US [ˈreptɪl] noun [countable] Word forms reptile : singular reptile plural reptiles 1) biology a type of cold blooded animal that gives birth to young animals as eggs and whose body is covered in scales (= flat hard pieces of… …
18REPTILE — n. m. Vertébré sans pieds ou à pieds très courts, qui avance en se traînant sur le ventre. Les reptiles sont des animaux à respiration pulmonaire. Le serpent est un reptile. Les lézards sont au nombre des reptiles …
19reptile — noun /rɪpˈtaɪl,ˈrɛp.taɪl/ A cold blooded vertebrate of the Class Reptilia. See Also: mammal like reptile, Reptilia, reptilian …
20reptile — noun (C) 1 a type of animal such as a snake or lizard whose blood changes according to the temperature around it, and that usually lays eggs 2 informal someone who is unpleasant or cannot be trusted: That reptile must have told the police! …
