Reptile

[Sarah]

An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or bymeans of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in thepublic path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside,and let the reptile live. Cowper.

[Sarah]

A class of cold-blooded vertebrates that includes turtles, lizards, snakes, alligators and crocodile.