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Belonging to the reptiles. Reptilian age , that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called

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Belonging to the reptiles. Reptilian age , that part of geological time comprising the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, and distinguished as that era in which the class of reptiles attained its highest expansion; -- called also the Secondary or Mezozoic age.

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• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• REPTILIAN
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• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• ATTAIN
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• CLASSIS
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• JURASSIC
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• CRETACEOUS; CRETACIC
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• CLASSMATE
  One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
• CALL
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• ATTAINDER
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• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
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• CALLIOPE
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• CALLOT
  A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
• CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• CALLOSE
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• TRIASSIC
  Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias. -- n.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
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• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
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• UNEMPIRICALLY
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• SCALLION
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• UNIVOCALLY
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• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
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• ACRONYCALLY
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• PHYSIOLOGICALLY
  In a physiological manner.
• DIAMETRICALLY
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