Where does “爬虫類” come from?

爬虫類 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 類 — kind, sort, type, the like.

爬虫類 (Japanese): reptiles

Definitions

  1. reptiles

Ancestry of “爬虫類”, step by step

爬虫類 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesekind, sort, type, the like

via Japanese 爬虫

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese爬虫reptile
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