Usage Note
Reptile covers all cold-blooded scaly vertebrates and is used in both everyday and scientific French. Informally it can be a dismissive term for a sly or slippery person. The plural reptiles is regular; the class in biology is les Reptiles.
Examples
"Le reptile se chauffe au soleil."
Natural Translation
The reptile warms itself in the sun.

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