reptile

Noun
  1. Any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms (synset 101663732)
    is a type of: craniate, vertebrate - animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
    subtypes:
    • anapsid, anapsid reptile - primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles
    • diapsid, diapsid reptile - reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye
    • diapsida, subclass diapsida - used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles; superseded by the two subclasses Lepidosauria and Archosauria
    • synapsid, synapsid reptile - extinct reptile having a single pair of lateral temporal openings in the skull
    belongs to: class reptilia, reptilia - class of cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates with completely ossified skeleton and a body usually covered with scales or horny plates; once the dominant land animals
    same as: reptilian

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