reptiles

1. A class of scaly vertebrates that usually reproduce by laying eggs . Lizards, snakes, turtles, and alligators are reptiles. Reptiles are cold-blooded animals .

Notes

The dinosaurs were reptiles.

Example Sentences

Native reptiles and birds, including the Be’er Sheva fringe-fingered lizard, the pin-tailed sandgrouse and the spectacled warbler, are now fall easy prey for crows and jays perched in the tree branches.

From Salon

The pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside their close relatives, the dinosaurs.

From Science Daily

The number of threatened trees now outweighs all threatened birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians put together, according to the latest update to the official extinction red list.

From BBC

She observed the two reptiles struggling, uncertain which was the aggressor, while horseflies clung to the snake’s back.

From BBC

Instead, it evolved in some dinosaurs only, probably some time after the Archosaur group, a group that includes both reptiles and birds, divided.

From Salon