reptilian's Usage Examples:

) Only one reptilian form is well known, T.

These contain reptilian remains, and also clear imprints of leaves of the Glossopteris indica, as well as other indications of an ancient vegetation.

A great part of the river systems of the country with their flooded areas are highly favourable to the development of reptilian life.

reptilian brain or limbic system is the part of the brain which controls the flight or fight complex.

basilisk's eyes are not reptilian but human, their expression an ancient and abiding love.

whither goest thou without thy son?The gradual passage of the thick root of the tail into the body is a character common to the Tasmanian wolf and the aard-vark, and may be directly inherited from reptilian ancestors (see Thylacine).

To this division are assigned the yellow sandstones of Elgin, which have yielded crocodilian and other reptilian remains, the discovery of which led to the rocks being separated from the Upper Old Red Sandstone, to which they had previously been thought to belong.

An osteological question which has been much discussed is the fate of the reptilian quadrate bone in the mammalian skull.

The reptilians are represented in the Parana by the jacare (Alligator sclerops), and on land by the " iguana " (Teius teguexim, Podinema teguixin), and some species of lizard.

In the western interior there is difference of opinion as to whether certain beds rich in reptilian remains (the Morrison, Atlantosaurus, Como, 'c.

Osborn, the tripartite reptilian condyle, by the loss of its median element, has given rise to the paired mammalian condyles; so that this difficulty disappears.

Fossil reptilian remains, chiefly Dicynodon, are abundant.

The Eye is essentially reptilian, but in sharpness of vision, power and quickness of accommodation it surpasses that of the mammals.

Synonyms:

Reptilia, Diapsida, synapsid reptile, class Reptilia, anapsid reptile, synapsid, vertebrate, craniate, subclass Diapsida, diapsid reptile, anapsid, reptile, diapsid,

Antonyms:

crocodilian, serpent, snake, anapsid, diapsid,