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reptant

adjective as in reptilian

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Reptant, rep′tant, adj. crawling: pertaining to the Reptantia, those gasteropod mollusca adapted for crawling.—n.

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Nam saepe in colli tondentes pabula laeta Lanigerae reptant pecudes quo quamque vocantes Invitant herbae gemmantes rore recenti8.

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Reptilia, reptiles. crawling, a. creeping, reptile, reptant, reptatorial, reptatory.--n. creeping. craze, v. madden, derange, distract; confuse, disarrange. craze, n. craziness, distraction; fancy, freak, crotchet; mania, passion, infatuation. craziness, n. insanity, lunacy, dementia, delirium; monomania; megalomania; paranoia. crazy, a. demented, deranged, insane, delirious, dementate, mad, lunatic, distracted, frantic, crazed, crack-brained; rickety, decrepit, shaky, tottering, dilapidated; desirous, eager, infatuated.

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Reptilia. creephole, n. retreat; subterfuge, expedient, makeshift excuse. creeping, a. crawling, reptile, reptant; fawning, truckling, obsequious, sycophantic. creeping, n. reptation; formication. creepingly, adv. insidiously, cunningly. cremate, v. incremate, incinerate. cremation, n. incremation, incineration.

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