Reptilehood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Reptilehood is a noun meaning The state or essence of being a reptile.
Meaning
The state or essence of being a reptile.
Example Sentences
At some point in the long evolutionary voyage from reptilehood, it developed a double voice-box, the syrinx.
If, say, you think that a whole lot of related lineages were all independently evolving in parallel from amphibianhood through reptilehood towards mammalhood, you could speak of passing through the reptile grade on the way to the mammal grade.
And so, though you, or Dr. Bellows, or an Archangel, should convince a Christian that the theatre, or the card-table, or a fancy ball, or a racecourse, were quite proper as religious amusements, still you must, moreover, unregenerate the man's taste, enveloping his spiritual wings back again into reptilehood, ere you can persuade him to rejoice in them.
Synonyms for reptilehood
Depending on context, synonyms include reptiledom.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include reptilianness, lizardry, snakehood, snakedom, lizardness, rabbitdom.
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