Crossword clues for reptilia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reptilia \Rep*til"i*a\ (r?p-t?l"?-?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zo["o]l.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
Note: It is nearly related in many respects to Aves, or birds. The principal existing orders are Testidunata or Chelonia (turtles), Crocodilia, Lacertilla (lizards), Ophidia (serpents), and Rhynchocephala; the chief extinct orders are Dinosauria, Theremorpha, Mosasauria, Pterosauria, Plesiosauria, Ichtyosauria.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-17c., from Latin plural of reptile (see reptile).
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
"Reptilia" is a song by indie rock band The Strokes, and the second single from their second album Room on Fire. The single's B-side contains "Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men", where lead singer Julian Casablancas duets with Regina Spektor. The official release date was delayed slightly after Casablancas objected to the song being credited as "The Strokes and Regina Spektor", claiming that it should read "by Regina Spektor & The Strokes".
In October 2011, NME placed it at number 129 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". Although it is not one of the band's highest charting singles since the song peaked at #19 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, it is still one of the band's most popular singles.
The song appeared in the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rock Band as well as the 2014 Volkswagen Golf Family ad. Progressive bluegrass band Punch Brothers performed a version of the song in May 2015 for The A.V. Club A.V. Undercover series.
The single cover depicts an alien from the video game Centipede.
Reptilia is a Japanese horror manga written and illustrated by Kazuo Umezu. The manga, titled in the original Japanese, is a series of three stories involving a shapeshifting snake-woman who haunts a Japanese village. It was originally published in 1966 by Kadokawa Shoten.
HebishÅjo was published in English under the title Reptilia by IDW Publishing in 2007.
Usage examples of "reptilia".
The flying-toad and the walking snake and the other reptilia are poisonous, and they dare not eat them.
It is unfortunate it was not held to stringently, as in Paraguay, at least, the Reptilia were already well represented.
Nowhere about them could Bradley see signs of other Wieroos, nor of those other menaces which he had feared might bring disaster to his plans for escape--the huge, winged reptilia that are so numerous above the southern areas of Caspak and which are often seen, though in lesser numbers, farther north.
I could never think of them as aught but cold-blooded, brainless reptiles, though Perry had de-voted much time in explaining to me that owing to a strange freak of evolution among all the genera of the inner world, this species of the reptilia had advanced to a position quite analogous to that which man holds upon the outer crust.
My greatest danger lay in the hideous reptilia whose low nervous organizations permitted their carnivorous instincts to function for several minutes after they had ceased to live.
I know that there are others where the reptilia of the Triassic and Jurassic Ages of the outer crust reign in undisputed possession because no other creature dare enter their domain.
Titanic duels were in progress upon every hand, as the ferocious reptilia battled over their kills, or, turning from the chase, fell upon one another in frenzied joy of battle while their fortunate quarry swam rapidly away.
Unlike Earth reptilia, the Austarian dragon lizards are warmblooded, with pneumaticized bones for reduction of weight and a keeled stemum where the flight muscles are attached.
On the other hand, Krishnan land vertebrates do not show the sharp distinctions among Amphibia, Reptilia, and Mammalia that we are accustomed to.