REPTILE


Meaning of REPTILE in English

noun

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■ ADJECTIVE

other

Newts and other rare reptiles are being stolen from ponds, and conservationists are worried that some species could die out altogether.

A whole range of other reptiles were present in the Jurassic and Cretaceous; none of them are dinosaurs.

They also eat the eggs of birds and other reptiles .

This never seemed to happen to other diving reptiles such as the ichthyosaurs.

The thick-shelled bivalves have greater lifespans than do other molluscs, and turtles and tortoises outlive other reptiles .

Much maligned, the adder is our only venomous snake, feeding on other reptiles and small mammals.

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Both amphibians and reptiles are paralyzed by cold, and are therefore confined to the temperate zones and tropics.

Eventually, they were eclipsed by the reptiles and much reduced in numbers.

Hunting reptiles is nothing new to John Weber.

In turn the later reptiles could diversify on land when they could lay eggs away from a watery environment.

Similarly, the huge reptiles which dominated the land, sea, and even the air of the Cretaceous are all gone.

The third is an immune system, used only by the descendants of reptiles.

Under the microscope even the bone structure of these dinosaurs looks more like that of living mammals than cold-blooded reptiles.

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