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4 Definitions of: reptile
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- noun, any of the cold-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Reptilia, characterized by lungs, an outer covering of horny scales or plates, and young produced in amniotic eggs. The class today includes the tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, and crocodiles; in Mesozoic times it was the dominant group, containing the dinosaurs and related forms
- noun, a grovelling insignificant person
- adjective, creeping, crawling, or squirming
- adjective, grovelling or insignificant; mean; contemptible
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