reptilia

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsclass Reptilia

   Broaderclass

   Part ofVertebrata

Other forms of reptilia

plural

reptilias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reptilia

What does reptilia mean?

reptilia means "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".

How many syllables are in reptilia?

reptilia has 4 syllables: rep-ti-li-a. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for reptilia?

Close synonyms include class Reptilia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reptilia a common word?

reptilia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.