reptile
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Not to belabor the reptile references, but Byrne is something of a creative chameleon, moving easily from drama to comedy to horror, film to television to stage and back again.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
It may have resembled a lizard, but it lived before reptiles and mammals branched into separate evolutionary paths, so it was not technically a reptile.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
The reptile, who died from liver cancer at the age of 30 in December, hatched in 1995 at an alligator farm in Louisiana before coming to live at the academy's swamp exhibit in 2008.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
Returning to George, who has his own spacious enclosure, Mrs Mansfield - though always cautious around him - clearly has a soft spot for the reptile.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
The huge reptile coiled itself languorously around the dead rodent.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing reptile
Life Science: Organisms and Taxonomy
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