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reptile 音标拼音: [r'ɛptɑɪl] n. 爬虫动物,爬虫,卑鄙的人
a. 爬行的,爬虫类的,卑鄙的 爬虫动物,爬虫,卑鄙的人爬行的,爬虫类的,卑鄙的 reptile n 1: any cold- blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms [ synonym: { reptile}, { reptilian}] Reptile \ Rep" tile\ ( r? p" t? l; 277), a. [ F. reptile, L. reptilis, fr. repere, reptum, to creep; cf. Lith. reploti; perh. akin to L. serpere. Cf. { Serpent}.] 1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. [ 1913 Webster] There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] And dislodge their reptile souls From the bodies and forms of men. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster]
Reptile \ Rep" tile\, n. 1. ( Zool.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like. [ 1913 Webster] An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Zool.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The amphibians were formerly classed with Reptilia, and are still popularly called reptiles, though much more closely allied to the fishes. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A groveling or very mean person. [ 1913 Webster] 129 Moby Thesaurus words for " reptile": Gila monster, Reptilia, agama, alligator, amphibian, anguine, animal, anole, aquatic, atiptoe, batrachian, bearded lizard, beast, biped, blindworm, box turtle, butterfly agama, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cayman, chameleon, clawback, colubriform, cosmopolite, crawling, creature, creeping, crocodile, crocodilian, cur, diamondback, dinosaur, dog, dragon, false map turtle, feline, flying dragon, froggy, gator, gavial, gecko, girdle- tailed lizard, glass snake, gnawer, green turtle, groveler, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, herbivore, hound, hyena, iguana, insect, insectivore, invertebrate, leatherback, lickspittle, lizard, lizardlike, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, matamata, minion, mongrel, monitor, mugger, omnivore, on all fours, on tippytoe, on tiptoe, ophidian, pig, polecat, primate, quadruped, repent, reptant, reptatorial, reptilelike, reptilian, reptiliform, reptiloid, rodent, ruminant, saurian, scavenger, sea turtle, serpent, serpentiform, serpentile, serpentine, serpentlike, serpentoid, skunk, slithering, snake, snakelike, snaky, soft- shelled turtle, stump tail, swine, teju, terrapin, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, toad, toadeater, toadish, toady, tortoise, tuatara, turtle, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, viper, viperiform, viperish, viperlike, viperoid, viperous, vipery, whelp, worm
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