Reptile vs Melatonin - What's the difference?
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A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia .
(figuratively) A mean or grovelling person.
* Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
Grovelling; low; vulgar.
* Burke
* Coleridge
A hormone, related to serotonin, that is secreted by the pineal gland, and stimulates colour change in the skin of reptiles, and is involved in the sleep/wake and reproductive cycles in mammals
Any material similar in its chemistry and effect to the natural hormone.
As nouns the difference between reptile and melatonin
is that reptile is a cold-blooded vertebrate of the class reptilia while melatonin is a hormone, related to serotonin, that is secreted by the pineal gland, and stimulates colour change in the skin of reptiles, and is involved in the sleep/wake and reproductive cycles in mammals.As an adjective reptile
is creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.reptile
English
(wikipedia reptile)Noun
(en noun)- "That reptile ," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"
Hyponyms
* See alsoSee also
* herpetology * for a list of reptiles in English * (wikipedia "reptile")Adjective
(-)- a reptile''' race or crew; '''reptile vices
- There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.
- And dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men.
