animal
vertebrate
crocodile
snake
turtle
lizard
1832 
EN: The Turtle Jonathan would have been born, at least, in 1832.
FR: La Tortue Jonathan serait née, au moins, en 1832.
EO: La Jonathan Turtle estus naskita, almenaŭ, en 1832.
EN: reptile
FR: reptile
ZH: 爬虫 (páchóng)
JA: 爬虫類 (hachūrui)
IT: rettile
DE: Reptil
ES: reptil
RU: рептилия (reptiliya)
EO: reptilio
BASICS
DERIVATIVES
EN: Draw legs on a snake.
FR: dessiner un serpent et lui ajouter des pattes.
ZH: 画蛇添足。 (Huàshétiānzú.)
EO: desegnu serpenton kaj aldonu krurojn al ĝi.
[ZH] – A chengyu. Meaning « gild the lily » ([FR]: « le mieux est l’ennemi du bien ».) / Refers to a group of friends having a contest in which they had to paint a snake as quickly as possible. The one who finished first, thought he had time to add legs to his snake. What he did. But finally he was disqualified because he had not drawn the right animal.
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