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reptilian

[rep-til-ee-uhn, -til-yuhn] / rɛpˈtɪl i ən, -ˈtɪl yən /
ADJECTIVE
pertaining to reptile
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Trandoshans: Reptilian humanoids from the planet Trandosha known for their hunting skills.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2022

Reptilian lungs are often divided into chambers that increase the surface area for gas exchange.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

On a far vaster scale, it was the Earth during that period of its development which is called the Reptilian Age.

From A Honeymoon in Space by Griffith, George Chetwynd

From the theoretical point of view the Ornithosaur acquired its Reptilian characters simultaneously with its Avian and Mammalian characters.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

Other fossil animals show that a fundamentally Reptilian structure is capable of developing in the Mammalian direction in the skull, backbone, shoulder-girdle, hip-girdle, and limbs, so as to be uniformly Mammalian in its tendencies.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.




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