any animal that has cold blood and skin covered in scales, and that lays eggs. Snakes, CROCODILES and TORTOISES are all reptiles.
compareAMPHIBIAN
reptilian adjective:
our reptilian ancestors * (figurative) He licked his lips in an unpleasantly reptilian way.
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