reptile
adjective
1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
2. Grovelling; low; vulgar.
- a reptile race or crew; reptile vices
noun
1. any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
Similar word(s): reptilian
Definition categories: animal, craniate, vertebrate