Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a reptile.

Etymologies

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reptile +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The AAnn had evolved from a reptilelike ancestor, and they shared with humans the same upright bisymmetrical build and the same large single-lensed eyes, though their hands and feet each boasted one less digit than their human equivalents.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • The AAnn had evolved from a reptilelike ancestor, and they shared with humans the same upright bisymmetrical build and the same large single-lensed eyes, though their hands and feet each boasted one less digit than their human equivalents.

    Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • These reptilelike birds, and these dust lizards, are animals which have become fully adapted to urban life, dependent on it, as rats and pigeons and sparrows and some insects were, at one time, on your Earth.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • These reptilelike birds, and these dust lizards, are animals which have become fully adapted to urban life, dependent on it, as rats and pigeons and sparrows and some insects were, at one time, on your Earth.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • These reptilelike birds, and these dust lizards, are animals which have become fully adapted to urban life, dependent on it, as rats and pigeons and sparrows and some insects were, at one time, on your Earth.

    The Cry of the Onlies Judy Klass 2000

  • I tried to flatten my head with willpower and make it small, flat and reptilelike.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • I tried to flatten my head with willpower and make it small, flat and reptilelike.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • I tried to flatten my head with willpower and make it small, flat and reptilelike.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • I tried to flatten my head with willpower and make it small, flat and reptilelike.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

  • I tried to flatten my head with willpower and make it small, flat and reptilelike.

    If There Be Thorns V.C Andrews 1981

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