reptile
General term for reptiles; used in biological and everyday contexts.
Reptiles include snakes and lizards.
reptiles
herpetology
Standard kanji spelling for 'reptile'.
From Chinese 爬蟲／爬虫 (páchóng), meaning 'reptile'. The kanji 爬 means 'crawl' and 虫 means 'insect' or 'creature'.