reptile

reptile

1. matelija

Synonyymisanakirja

reptile

selkärankainen, matelijat, Reptilia-luokka, matelija, anapsidi, anapsidimatelija, diapsidi, Diapsida-alaluokka.

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Englannin sanakirja

reptile (englanti > suomi)

1. matelija

reptile englanniksi

1. A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.

2. puhekieltä A mean or grovelling person.

3. (RQ:Fielding Tom Jone)

This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.

4. Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

"That reptile," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"

5. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

6. Grovelling; low; vulgar.

a reptile race or crew; reptile vices

7. Burke

There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.

8. Coleridge

And dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men.

9. English reptile

10. (inflection of)

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