reptilium
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Germany's great cinema combine, turned from filming the lives of butterflies, bugs, reptilia, to the career of General Feldmarschall Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, President of the German Reich.
From Time Magazine Archive
Take, again, one of these sub-kingdoms, the vertebrata, and we find it composed of five classes, - the mammalia, reptilia, pisces, amphibia, and aves, each of the other sub-kingdoms being similarly divisible.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Chambers, Robert
Ah, my friends, if we had no souls--if, like the aesthetic reptilia, we knew that when our dust dissolved our existence would be over--we should realize the preciousness of what we hold so lightly now.
From A journey in other worlds A romance of the future by Astor, John Jacob
My greatest danger lay in the hideous reptilia whose low nervous organizations permitted their carnivorous instincts to function for several minutes after they had ceased to live.
From The People That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
The wrist bones in the reptilia usually consist of two rows.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.
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