reptile

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/    美 /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/|/ˈɹɛp.taɪəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cold-blooded, non-winged vertebrate tetrapod animal, typically scaly and of a species that lays eggs, such as a lizard or turtle, or a snake.
  2. Any creeping or crawling animal, one that moves along close to the ground on its belly or on short legs, such as a lizard, snake, salamander, frog, toad, or scorpion. dated
  3. An animal belonging to either the class Reptilia or the class Amphibia. dated
  4. A member of the class Reptilia, either including birds, or only those ectothermic sauropsid members with scales that typically lay eggs.
  5. An ectothermic, scaly animal, whether sauropsid or synapsid, of the clade Amniota. dated,proscribed
    — Prior to the 1990s, the non-mammalian synapsids were considered true reptiles.
  6. Any animal belonging to the clade Sauropsida, including those scaly animals as well as birds.
  7. An abject, grovelling, loathsome or repulsive person. dated,figuratively
    — This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.
形容词 adj.
  1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. not-comparable
  2. Grovelling; low; vulgar. not-comparable
    — a reptile race or crew    reptile vices

词形变化

reptiles plural

词汇关系

近义词
creeper reptile
上位词
vertebrate animal
下位词
snake lizard chameleon turtle tortoise crocodile alligator caiman dinosaur archosaur tuatara gecko skink iguana
衍生词
eureptile nonreptile reptilase reptiledom reptilehood reptilekind reptilelike reptilic reptiliferous reptiliform reptilism reptilivorous
相关词
mammal-like reptile Reptilia reptilian reptilianness reptiloid reptilologist reptilology reptoid reptologist :Category:Reptiles reptilelike herpetology

词源

词源 1
From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
词源 2
From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
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