The word "reptile" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, including tortoises, turtles, lizards, snakes, crocodiles, and alligators. An example sentence would be: "My younger brother loves to observe different types of reptiles in the pet store."
Some creatures never display these traits at all, particularly the almost ubiquitously solitary reptile family.
Related: Charles Kennedy dies aged 55 – latest updates and tributes It must have been about five years ago, at a reception at the reptile house of the London zoo, when I met Charles Kennedy.
The artist built a prototype incorporating Rolls-Royce parts, rib bones and reptile vertebrae.
At the end of a stay of aeons of time in Yama Pura, the Hindu Hell the oldest known, with its subdivisions of heated kettles, iron spikes and "dreadful shrieking"—or at the end of the Buddhist Hell, with its particular torments of scraping the heart and stuffing the skull with hedgehogs, the purged soul returns to Earth as an insect or a reptile, entering the cycle again.
Pointing at the waxy reptile, a guide says, "You can see even the animal kingdom bows down to the Great Leader".Inspecting gift horsesWhen useless and inappropriate gifts continue to turn up in future, courtiers and diplomats ought to apply a new pragmatism.
THERE is a lot of talk in "Jurassic World", the new "Jurassic Park" sequel, about how a dinosaur can be brought to life in a laboratory by splicing some prehistoric genes with the DNA of a 21st-century reptile.
"Children in front of a tank of the US Army in the Friedrichstraβe" (1961) show one curious group of boys in check shirts, pointing at a monolithic tank as if it were a reptile.
He eventually owned not just his parents' reptile park (turned into the Australia Zoo, "Where Crocs Rule!") but 30,000 hectares in Australia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the United States, which he kept as natural reserves.
But they were mostly small, and they shared the earth with lots of other sorts of reptile.
This is an artist's impression of a flying reptile called Quetzalcoatlus eating a small dinosaur.
To the outsider, observing political change in the two Cubas resembles watching a tortoise race in which neither reptile has strayed far from the starting line.
