English words for 'reptile'
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noun
- A reptilian animal: a reptile.
- (science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.
- (figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
adj
noun
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
prefix
noun
- (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
- relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
- (colloquial) A coward.
- (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of Mosasauria — typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, four limbs and a long tail, although some species are legless.
- (colloquial) An unctuous person.
- (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
- a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
noun
- A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
- A common European adder (Vipera berus).
- Something which adds or increases.
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- a machine that adds numbers
- a person who adds numbers
- small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia
noun
- (properly) A reptile of the suborder Sauria.
- (popularly, especially science fiction) Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens.
- (figuratively) A lizardlike person.
- any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
adj
noun
- (loosely, historical) A reptile or amphibian.
- (informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc.
- (zoology, cladistic) Any member of Reptilia, including birds.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
adj
noun
- (zoology, Australia, British, specifically) A marine reptile of that order.
- (dance) A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
- (military, historical) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
- (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- (genericized trademark) A candy with pecans, caramel, and chocolate, often shaped like a turtle.
- (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
- (computing theory) A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
- (zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
- (television) A low stand for a lamp etc.
- (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
- any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming
- a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar
verb
- (intransitive) To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
- (intransitive) To turn and swim upside down.
- (intransitive) To move along slowly.
- (video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
- (intransitive) To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
- overturn accidentally
- hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation
noun
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
- a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited
- A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.
- (now literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
- (figurative) A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
- (music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
- (mythology, fantasy) A snake-like monster, such as a dragon or sea serpent.
noun
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- a deceitful or treacherous person
- (finance, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Ellipsis of snake game.
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
- (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
verb
- move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- form a snake-like pattern
- move along a winding path
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
noun
- (countable) A hognose snake of this morph.
- (countable, slang, vulgar, by extension) A large penis.
- (uncountable) A pattern morph of hognose snake that results in fewer but larger spots and often a completely black belly.
- (countable) Any large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. [from 19th c.]
- (countable, in particular) The green anaconda, Eunectes murinus.
- large arboreal boa of tropical South America
name
noun
- A reptilian animal: a reptile.
- (science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.
- (figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
adj
noun
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
noun
- (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
- relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
- (colloquial) A coward.
- (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of Mosasauria — typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, four limbs and a long tail, although some species are legless.
- (colloquial) An unctuous person.
- (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
- a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
noun
- A milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum).
- A common European adder (Vipera berus).
- Something which adds or increases.
- Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
- (chiefly British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera
- A northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen), a venomous viper found in the eastern United States
- Death adders (Acanthophis spp.), elapid snakes found in Southeast Asia and Australia
- An electronic device that adds voltages, currents or frequencies.
- A sea stickleback or adder fish (Spinachia spinachia).
- A puff adders, of Africa (genus Bitis).
- A hog-nosed snake, of genus Heterodon of harmless colubrid snakes found in North America
- a machine that adds numbers
- a person who adds numbers
- small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia
noun
- (properly) A reptile of the suborder Sauria.
- (popularly, especially science fiction) Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens.
- (figuratively) A lizardlike person.
- any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
adj
noun
- (loosely, historical) A reptile or amphibian.
- (informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc.
- (zoology, cladistic) Any member of Reptilia, including birds.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
adj
noun
- (zoology, Australia, British, specifically) A marine reptile of that order.
- (dance) A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
- (military, historical) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
- (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- (genericized trademark) A candy with pecans, caramel, and chocolate, often shaped like a turtle.
- (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
- (computing theory) A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
- (zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
- (television) A low stand for a lamp etc.
- (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
- any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming
- a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar
verb
- (intransitive) To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
- (intransitive) To turn and swim upside down.
- (intransitive) To move along slowly.
- (video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
- (intransitive) To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
- overturn accidentally
- hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation
noun
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake
- a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited
- A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.
- (now literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
- (figurative) A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
- (music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
- (mythology, fantasy) A snake-like monster, such as a dragon or sea serpent.
noun
- limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- Any of the suborder Serpentes of legless reptile with long, thin bodies and fork-shaped tongues.
- something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
- a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
- a deceitful or treacherous person
- (finance, historical) Ellipsis of snake in the tunnel.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) An informer; a rat.
- A tool for unclogging plumbing.
- Ellipsis of snake game.
- (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
- (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.
- Ellipsis of black snake (“firework that creates a trail of ash”).
- (UK, Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
- (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.
- (figurative) A person who acts deceitfully for personal or social gain; a treacherous person.
- A tool to aid cable pulling.
verb
- move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
- form a snake-like pattern
- move along a winding path
- (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
- (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE) To inform; to rat; often with out.
- (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.
- (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
- (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
noun
- (countable) A hognose snake of this morph.
- (countable, slang, vulgar, by extension) A large penis.
- (uncountable) A pattern morph of hognose snake that results in fewer but larger spots and often a completely black belly.
- (countable) Any large nonvenomous snake of the genus Eunectes, found mainly in northern South America. [from 19th c.]
- (countable, in particular) The green anaconda, Eunectes murinus.
- large arboreal boa of tropical South America
name
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noun
- A reptilian animal: a reptile.
- (science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.
- (figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms