REPTILE Synonyms

• leather made from alligator's hide

• either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts

• crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes

• a faint constellation in the polar region of the Southern Hemisphere near Apus and Mensa

• a changeable or inconstant person

• lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue

• large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters

• a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

• a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

• a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

• any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

• any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless

• large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America

• relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail

• a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

• a deceitful or treacherous person

• something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

• a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes

• move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

• form a snake-like pattern

• move along a winding path

• a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar

• any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming

• overturn accidentally

• hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

• of or relating to the class Reptilia

• any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms