Scorpion vs Reptile - What's the difference?
scorpion | reptile |
Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones , related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a poisonous sting in the end.
An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
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
As nouns the difference between scorpion and reptile
is that scorpion is any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a poisonous sting in the end while reptile is a cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.As adjectives the difference between scorpion and reptile
is that scorpion is of, or pertaining to, the Scorpio star sign while reptile is creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.scorpion
English
(wikipedia scorpion)Alternative forms
* skorpionNoun
(en noun)See also
* arachnid * Scorpio *Derived terms
* scorpionate * scorpion kick * scorpionlike ----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.
