Crossword clues for reptilian
reptilian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reptilian \Rep*til"i*an\ (-an), a. Belonging to the reptiles.
Reptilian age (Geol.), that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age.
Reptilian \Rep*til"i*an\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Reptilia; a reptile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, from reptile + -ian. Transferred meaning "malignant, cold, underhanded" is from 1859.
Wiktionary
a. 1 reptile-like. 2 Of or referring to reptiles. 3 treacherous. n. 1 reptile 2 (context ufology English) One of a race of extraterrestrial shape-shifters purported to secretly control the world.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to the class Reptilia
n. any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles and extinct forms [syn: reptile]
Wikipedia
Reptilian may refer to:
- Reptiles and their qualities
- Reptilians, malevolent reptilian humanoids featured in conspiracy theories and alien abduction accounts
- List of reptilian humanoids, reptilian humanoids in fiction and mythology generally
- Reptilian (film), the American title for the 1999 South Korean kaiju film remake of Yonggary (1967)
- Reptilian (album), album by the Norwegian extreme metal group Keep of Kalessin
- "Reptilia", music single by The Strokes
- Reptilian complex (brain theory)
- Reptilians, album by the American electronica band Starfucker
- "Reptile's Theme", music single by the American producer Skrillex
Reptilian is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian extreme metal band Keep of Kalessin, released on 10 May 2010 in Europe and on 8 June 2010 in North America through Nuclear Blast. The album peaked at number two on the Norwegian record chart, VG-lista. This would be the last album with Torbjørn "Thebon" Schei on vocals before being fired in 2013.
Usage examples of "reptilian".
Synapsids were one of the four main divisions of early reptilian life, the others being anapsids, euryapsids, and diapsids.
Along with the brimstone reek of their fodder and droppings, he also inhaled the strong reptilian musk that was their own distinctive scent.
Plain black pasties concealed the nipples of both human and reptilian females.
Shinaam delivered the first: the Pontifical minister of internal affairs, a man of the Ghayrog race, with glistening reptilian scales and a flickering forked red tongue.
Lorcan the First founded the Kingdom of the Isles with the help of a great wizard from a prehuman reptilian race.
The reports Pressman had provided gave dry facts and figures about what the reptilian humanoids were capable of, but now, actually seeing them scan the terrain for any threat, seeing how they carried themselves with such arrogance and certainty, Danar knew.
Fugacious rainbows rippled along reptilian convolutions like oil spilled on water: rubious, rubicelle, aureate, viridescent, argent, cerulean.
He hung on for grim death as the reptilian creature tried to tug Trass into the water.
She rattled the bars with her beak until the bird inside unwinged its tired head and took her reptilian gaze straight in the eye.
Slowly, like some primitive, reptilian apoda, I extended my legs as far as possible and edged my body forward toward the wall.
The translation, goat-sucker, scrolled up on the screen, followed by a sketch and description of gray-skinned, red-eyed, reptilian vampire creatures three to four feet tall with spiny crests on their backs.
There was a threshing rush, the waters stormed foamily, there was a glimpse of a blunted, reptilian snout, and the trailing body vanished with it.
The part that is involved is in the oldest part of the forebrain, a part that humans as well as other primates share with out mammalian and reptilian ancestors.
Their mouths were open, showing the filed teeth and reptilian tongue that typified the ghoulie, creatures who dwelled in the darkest corners of city ruins, waiting to rend and chill.
Hal having a few glasses of beer every so often than absorbing God alone knows what sort of esoteric designer compounds with reptilian Michael Pemulis and trail-of-slime-leaving James Struck, both of whom give Avril a howling case of the maternal fantods.