Reptile vs Quadratojugal - What's the difference?
reptile | quadratojugal |
A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia .
(figuratively) A mean or grovelling person.
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
Grovelling; low; vulgar.
* Burke
* Coleridge
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone.
(anatomy) A small jaw bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds.
As nouns the difference between reptile and quadratojugal
is that reptile is a cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia while quadratojugal is a small jaw bone found in the skull of most reptiles, amphibians and birds.As adjectives the difference between reptile and quadratojugal
is that reptile is creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs while quadratojugal is of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.reptile
English
(wikipedia reptile)Noun
(en noun)- "That reptile ," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"
Hyponyms
* See alsoSee also
* herpetology * for a list of reptiles in English * (wikipedia "reptile")Adjective
(-)- a reptile''' race or crew; '''reptile vices
- There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.
- And dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men.