How To Use Reptilian In A Sentence
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Two ugly reptilian little nestlings and an unhatched egg that was probably still a goer.
Times, Sunday Times
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We retain reptilian reflexes deep in our minds (fight or flight) while the more complex structuring of knowledge (how to do statistics) is layered over those primitive networks.
Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives
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The reptilian monstrosity shook off the vines with total ease, body curled up beneath the neck, and tail stretched out behind it, rattling noisily.
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Figure 16 pictures a three-headed reptilian bird chasing a hunter who is armed with a gun.
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Judge Dave Ryan is also a friend to children; however, he can't fly, and he lacks a hard, reptilian protective shell.
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Finally, I drove eastwards towards Sheppey, past Funton Creek, where reptilian glasswort plants replenish seed-stocks for hungry wildfowl, to Bedlam's Bottom to enjoy a glowing sunset.
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In addition to incitements and urgings from these right-wing political and mainstream media morons, there also came - and still are coming - the claims from the weirdest and dankest holes in the blogosphere, the deep rat warrens where readers of Newsmax, NewsBusters and other collections of neo-Nazi rants, can come together to rub vigorously each other's, um, reptilian fears and stroke each other's faux bravery as they plot their "counterrevolutionary" tactics and strategies.
Mike Malloy: Poison
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This reptilian monster has various forms in its plastic representations, according to the style of each region; it can appear as a bicephalous dragon or a 2-headed plumed serpent; and also as a bird with serpent features.
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So, on the other hand, this ichthyoid, reptilian, or monochondyloid ideal of the self-made man can only be reached, universally, by a nation which holds that poverty, either of purse or spirit, -- but especially the spiritual character of being [Greek: ptôchoi tô pneumati], -- is the lowest of degradations; and which believes that the desire of wealth is the first of manly and moral sentiments.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870
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Chromoviral distribution has been analyzed in 15 reptilian species, including representatives of crocodiles, turtles, and squamates.
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Two of the bones found in the reptilian jaw are nearly identical to two of the bones in the mammalian inner ear.
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Piett thought he was out of earshot, but the disparagement was still heard by Bossk, a towering reptilian humanoid and skilled predator.
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Nick Stahl does a good job portraying Bobby as a vicious, detestable bully (with perhaps just a hint of reptilian charisma).
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All humans follow a script whether they exist in a Reptilian or Pleiadian or Sirian dream.
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Its forty-six helical-structured chromosomes are human, not bovine, avian, or reptilian.
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Her blue eyes, entirely void of make up, gave her face a strange, reptilian look.
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Vertebrate animals (mammals, birds, theropod dinosaurs) develop larger brains then their earlier reptilian ancestors.
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One popular but now outdated theory is that the brain has three parts: the reptilian brain, which includes the structures and functions we share with reptiles such as territoriality; the paleomammalian brain, a group of related structures that manages social emotions and behaviors like nurturing or reciprocity in all mammals; and the neocortex, which manages evaluation and reasoning in the most complex mammals, especially humans.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: What Are Emotions Anyway? (Part 4)
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The chick is ugly and almost reptilian in its appearance.
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Let us consider first the simpler explanation of a series of morphological evolutionary changes in the evolution of avian feathers from reptilian scales.
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One of them in Britain might be archaeopteryx, the bird-like creature with teeth and other reptilian features.
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Still had true socketed teeth, a reptilian trait.
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Their riders, scaly humanoid creatures with reptilian features, watched the trees for any sign of moments.
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One pays according to an iron schedule -- for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime.
Chapter 6
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Boyle is Sidney Greenstreet - ish, minus the reptilian glamour.
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Rodents are prey for avian, reptilian, and mammalian predators.
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He was lean and supple, every bit as reptilian as birdlike.
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This ties into the idea of confabulation as the frontal lobes’ post-facto rationalization of decisions already made by the mammalian or reptilian brains.
I have no thesis here, i just like saying numinous
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The airport's colorful and undeniably creepy diptych murals depicting things such as a gas-mask wearing Gestapo officer impaling a dove with his saber, and three dead women in coffins, don't help quell the rumors that DIA is some kind of grand mystic lodge for the reptilian overlords who secretly run everything.
Boing Boing
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It's part of what we call the reptilian core of the brain, associated with wanting, with motivation, with focus and with craving.
Helen Fisher studies the brain in love
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‘Go to the stables,’ the reptilian woman continued, embracing the boy with her scaly wings.
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His drawings feature annotated cutaways of fierce reptilian creatures revealing inner organs that serve various destructive purposes.
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But here he distils horror by showing it in slow passage through the ageing, reptilian contours of Michael Caine's face.
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These fishes, which preceded the appearance of reptiles, present a combination of ichthyic and reptilian characters not to be found in the true members of this class, which form its bulk at present.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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What I've done," Esme said, "is to enliven its archipallium or reptilian brain.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The script called for her to be sympathetic, in spite of his reptilian appearance.
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Mr. Chen laughed in his quiet, reptilian way.
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As she stepped closer, the intelligent reptilian head and glittering scaly body became apparent.
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You have to admit that there's something fascinating about dinosaurs, those lumbering reptilian giants of a bygone age.
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A psychologist I used to know told me that when put into a life threatening situation that the brain shuts off – except for the reptilian aspects which control the adrenalin and an instinct to either fight or flee.
Think Progress » Murtha on Haditha: ‘I Know There Was a Cover-up … The Chain of Command Tried to Stifle the Story’
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The Spitalfields coins, issued in 1509, carry an image of the archangel St Michael defeating a reptilian devil.
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We stood there in the vet clinic with one of the assistants calmly considering the possible reptilian culprits - rattler, cottonmouth, or copperhead.
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The next cell held three krait—creatures with reptilian heads and human torsos and serpent abdomens.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Mammals, as we have learned to expect, employ a bizarre and pointlessly complicated variation on the straightforward and logical reptilian plan.
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Seeing things break, disintegrate, or explode, at absolutely no personal risk to yourself, lights up some primitive reptilian part of our brain with searing glee.
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Among molluscs, the Ammonites, related to the modern Pearly Nautilus, are an example of a race very numerous and varied during all the periods of the Reptilian Era, but disappearing at its close, leaving only a few collateral descendants in the squids, cuttlefish and nautili of the modern seas.
Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
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The chick is ugly and almost reptilian in its appearance.
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a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime.
Chapter VI
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Lawyers for Mohamed Al Fayed have failed in a bid to summons a seven foot tall blood-drinking reptilian from the star system Alpha Draconis to court to give evidence at the inquest into the death of Al Fayed's son Dodi and Diana Princess of Wales.
Al Fayed fury at inquest witness ruling
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This is thought to be an adaptation to deter mammalian and reptilian predators.
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Well I doubt his low reptilian cunning is inadequate to that task but lets pretend.
How Boring Am I ?
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As I was watching Sarah Palin's most recent and perhaps most "special" news appearance yet, I reflected on her still disturbing national political presence, the reptilian Republican mind, and the ener ...
Beth Arnold: Who's The Turkey?
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The malleus and the incus are the remnants of bones that in our reptilian ancestors were to be found in the jaw, as I explained earlier.
The Human Brain
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He can feel Martin out there waiting his time with the cold reptilian patience of the perfect agent.
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The Jurassic or first part of the reptilian time shades insensibly into the second part, called the Cretaceous, which immediately follows it.
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
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The reptilian scale has absolutely nothing to do with follicles.
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Enormous temporal fossae for very strong jaw muscles, formed by just one of the reptilian jaw muscles, which has now become the mammalian masseter.
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Named after their spotted coats and fearsome jaws, leopard seals have large, reptilian heads and streamlined bodies.
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‘Some looked like reptilian armadillos or cats, and others looked like little dinosaurs,’ Nesbitt said.
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They therefore identified the medial, proximal tarsal bone of Diadectes as the intermedium and equated it with the reptilian astragalus.
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A wide, drooling toothless grin split his flat face, and two yellow-red reptilian eyes stared covetously from his immense head.
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It has a mixture of both mammalian (fur, warmblooded, etc) and reptilian (lays eggs)traits.
Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb
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Although old drawings of Tyrannosaurus rex give the beast an almost erect stance and a long reptilian tail, which dragged on the ground.
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The monster's half mammalian, half reptilian face glared menacingly at him with cold, merciless yellow eyes.
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So on the other hand, this ichthyoid, reptilian, or mono-chondyloid ideal of the self-made man can only be reached, universally, by a nation which holds that poverty, either of purse or spirit, -- but especially the spiritual character of being [Greek: ptôchoi tô pneumati], is the lowest of degradations; and which believes that the desire of wealth is the first of manly and moral sentiments.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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The weavers' primary reptilian enemies are the boomslang and the Cape cobra.
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Schindewolf "The first bird hatched from a reptilian egg.
An Important Message
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At our study site, the predator guild includes avian, mammalian, and reptilian species.
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All around him were life forms from across the galaxy; humans, humanoids, insectoids, reptilianoids, and others best left unmentioned.
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This is a sequence of fossils which shows in great detail how the mammalian inner ear bones evolved from similar bones in the reptilian jaw.
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The tuatara are a powerful reptilian race, and their methods of battle are savage beyond compare.
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) `I'm sure you'll have the entire reptilian population of Canvey quaking in its scales at that,' Arthur growled.
BEHINDLINGS
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It comes from the most primitive part of what evolutionary psychologists call the reptilian brain, the part of the brain that governs instincts, heartbeat and breathing.
John Hope Bryant: The Problem With Short-Termism
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Snake is a notorious bank robber who, unlike his reptilian namesake, is far from sneaky or subtle.
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Sincere roles are not only out of character for Jim Carey, they are entirely alien to his reptilian nature.
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That is, the mechanism that should concern us is our own reptilian nature.
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The naga turned and smiled, his golden-reptilian eyes locking with his.
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He turned a cold, reptilian gaze on me.
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There is something reptilianly illicit and compelling about self-destruction.
Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Uncle Tom’s Closet
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In fact, a lot of those B players are still around today - the reptilian Richard Perle for example.
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As you summon the story of your reptilian past, you will find that many of the influential characters in the patriarchal system of history have indeed been part of the reptile family.
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Autumn has arrived and with the cooler weather our amphibian and reptilian friends will be looking for somewhere to call home over the winter.
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At the time, paleontologists were stuck in a reptilian perspective on dinosaurs.
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Dehydration can cause serious health problems in any reptilian species.
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Examples being variations of hind limb bones in whales, or an intermediate of an ancestral reptilian jaw bone to a mammalian malleus bone transition, et al, just one categorical example.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Therefore, it had nothing to do with demonstrating how the genetic information coding for feathers could have arisen in the imagined reptilian ancestors of birds.
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The oldest, which he calls the reptilian brain, controls aggression and passionate impulsiveness.
Sequential Problem Solving A Student Handbook with Checklists for Successful Critical Thinking
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Turtles and iguanas are the most common reptilian sources of the infection.
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He'd not realized, when he wrote the book, the full significance of the snakes and the reptilian brain.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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It had nothing to do with demonstrating how the genetic information coding for feathers could have arisen in the imagined reptilian ancestors of birds.
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All pale, all vaguely reptilian, but in every other regard a personal creation.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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His logic is so efficient it could be something instinctive, reptilian.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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Mammals have three, the stapes, the malleus, and incus, the last two being the old reptilian jaw joint still conserved deep within our ear.
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Like all reflexes, the startle reflects activity of the brain stem, the most primitive, reptilian part of the brain.
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At the time, paleontologists were stuck in a reptilian perspective on dinosaurs.
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Named after their spotted coats and fearsome jaws, leopard seals have large, reptilian heads and streamlined bodies.
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In proportion to body size, mammals have brains about ten times the size of reptilian brains.
