Reptilia

[ rep-til-ee-uh ]

noun

1. the class comprising the reptiles.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Reptilia¹

From New Latin, dating back to 1620–30; reptilian

Example Sentences

The snake is being cared for at Reptilia in Ossett, Wakefield.

From BBC

A hundred years from now, scholarship kids at an art school will claw each other’s eyes out to take classes in a building with his name on it; tonight, he’s doing a backflip in the photo booth, picking up his Stella Artois Cidre, and heading back to the dance floor to try to grind on his coworker to “Reptilia.”

From The Verge

The statute states that the term “animal” includes “every living vertebrate in the classes Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia except humans.”

From Fox News

According to the plot, these highly civilized saurians flourished for centuries until Earth’s atmosphere entered a period of cataclysmic upheaval that forced Homo reptilia to go into hibernation underground to wait out the danger.

From Scientific American

Microsaur means ‘small reptile’ and the similarity that microsaurs have with reptiles initially – that is, between approximately the 1860s and 1950s – resulted in their classification within Reptilia.

From Scientific American