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reptile

[rep-tahyl, -til] / ˈrɛp taɪl, -tɪl /


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Documents said the abandoned venture planned to include "reptile, mongoose and several animal enclosures".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The work forms part of a broader investigation into the early history of modern reptile groups and the diversity of reptiles that inhabited Triassic seas.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026

But AI’s often imperfect renderings, including bread that “looks like reptile skin” and shrimp that looks like “otherworldly fleshy rings” are often a turnoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The alarming reptile was “last seen in a tree within a residential neighborhood near Main Street and Edinger Avenue,” according to the department’s warning to the public.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Therefore, Marburg lived in some other kind of host—an insect? a rat? a spider? a reptile?

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Working with the Zoological Society of London, WWF tracks nearly 36,000 populations of almost 6,000 species of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Paleontologists have not found fossils of lizards, turtles, crocodiles, or other reptiles from Cretaceous Alaska, Chiarenza said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

And while influential figures at last month's World Rowing congress in Amsterdam made occasional references to "safety", the presence of the reptiles was not their chief concern.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The wolves eat other animals including elk, deer, reptiles, birds and sometimes large livestock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

There was a smell of reptiles and animals.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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