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Beaver vs Reptile - What's the difference?

beaver | reptile |

As nouns the difference between beaver and reptile

is that beaver is an aquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet while reptile is a cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.

As a proper noun Beaver

is {{surname|lang=en}.

As an adjective reptile is

creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

beaver

English

(wikipedia beaver) (Castor)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bever, from (etyl) . Related to brown and bear.

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An aquatic rodent of the genus Castor , having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
  • A hat, of various shape, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Prescott)
    • a brown beaver slouched over his eyes
  • (coarse, slang) The pubic hair and/or vulva of a woman.
  • The fur of the beaver.
  • Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
    • Derived terms
    * American beaver * European beaver
    Related terms
    * bank beaver * beaver away * beavered * beaver rat * busy as a beaver * eager beaver
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lower face-guard of a helmet.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, lxvii:
  • *:With trembling hands her beaver he untied, / Which done, he saw, and seeing knew her face.
  • *1819 , (Walter Scott), (Ivanhoe) :
  • *:Without alighting from his horse, the conqueror called for a bowl of wine, and opening the beaver , or lower part of his helmet, announced that he quaffed it, “To all true English hearts, and to the confusion of foreign tyrants.”
  • *1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), , Faber & Faber 1992, p.128:
  • *:As each one brings a little of himself to what he sees you brought the trappings of your historic preoccupations, so that Monsieur flattered you by presenting himself with beaver up like Hamlet's father's ghost!

    • Etymology 3

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • References

    (Commons) *

    reptile

    English

    (wikipedia reptile)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia .
  • (figuratively) A mean or grovelling person.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
    • "That reptile ," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * mammal-like reptile * Reptilia * reptilian * reptilianness * reptiliology * reptiliologist * reptiliologists [http://books.google.ca/books?id=TnYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228&dq=%22reptiliologists%22&source=bl&ots=qXCApoFKv0&sig=hR4TkkqpuyWpYqBrshiMLrWzGcQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6D_UT4qaF6bS2QXgmvmuDw&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA
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    • (-)

    See also

    * herpetology * for a list of reptiles in English * (wikipedia "reptile")

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
  • Grovelling; low; vulgar.
    • a reptile''' race or crew; '''reptile vices
  • * Burke
    • There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.
  • * Coleridge
    • And dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men.

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