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A class of scaly vertebrates that usually reproduce by laying eggs. Lizards, snakes, turtles, and alligators are reptiles. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals.

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notes for reptiles

The dinosaurs were reptiles.

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How to use reptiles in a sentence

For others, those ninjutsu-proficient reptiles were nefarious liberal propaganda.
A Political History of the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’|Asawin Suebsaeng|August 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And some reptiles add a fourth function to the overworked cloacal repository–that of respiration as well.
What the Man With No Ass Crack Can Teach Darwinists and Creationists|Kent Sepkowitz|January 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And second, the allegers proved themselves over time to be as unappealing a litter of reptiles and crones as could be imagined.
Hillary Derangement Syndrome|Michael Tomasky|April 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Eliza Shapiro on the invasive reptiles who are so far evading capture.
Who Hid All the Snakes?|Eliza Shapiro|January 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The Everglades, overrun with huge reptiles, is about to host its first-ever open season on snakes.
How to Catch a Giant Python|Catharine Skipp|February 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
On such a night all India seems to be dead as a land but tremendously alive as a storehouse of insects, animals, and reptiles.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
The island is especially favoured; it contains no poisonous or hurtful insects or reptiles.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
It has not been taken notice of in the modern works on Reptiles.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
Now, says the skeptic, is it not possible that reptiles and birds lived upon the earth previous to the creation of beasts?
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward
In fishes and reptiles a full sweep of vision is so slowly gained that some more active sentinel sense is requisite to safety.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris

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