reptilium
Americannoun
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reptilia
plural
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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
He subsequently devoted all his spare time to geology and especially to the fossile reptilia, describing many remains of Dinosaurs, to our knowledge of which as well as of other Saurians he largely contributed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The reptilia are divided into four orders, the division being founded upon the difference in the quantity of their respiration, and the diversity of their organs of motion.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
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 John Jacob Astor
Hungry as they were, they were not yet ready to feed upon the reptilia.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
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