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Reptilian   Listen
adjective
Reptilian  adj.  Belonging to the reptiles.
Reptilian age (Geol.), that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age.






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"Reptilian" Quotes from Famous Books



... ophiology, ophiolatry, ophiophagous, ophiography, herpetology, ophidian, ophiologic, ophiomorphous, herpetologist, herpetotomy, herpetotomist, ophiologist, ophiomancy, echidna, echidnine, fang, uraeus, serpentry, reptilian, anguiform, anguine. ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... population spread over the earth. From one of these early reptiles the birds were evolved. Geology furnishes the missing link between the bird and the reptile in the Archaeopteryx, a bird with teeth, claws on its wings, and a reptilian tail. From another primitive reptile the important group of the mammals was evolved. We find what seem to be the transitional types in the rocks of South Africa. The scales gave way to tufts of hair, the heart evolved a fourth chamber, and thus supplied purer blood (warm blood), the brain profited ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... that found in Ireland. Yet the Irish species are all common to England, and all the English to Belgium. It is therefore assumed that the migration of species westward having been the work of time, there was not sufficient lapse of ages to complete the fusion of the continental and British reptilian fauna, before France was separated from England ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell



Words linked to "Reptilian" :   subclass Diapsida, anapsid reptile, vertebrate, Reptilia, diapsid reptile, anapsid, reptile, synapsid reptile, class Reptilia, Diapsida, diapsid, synapsid, craniate



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