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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging to or having the characters of the lizards called Chalcididæ. See Chalcididæ.
  • noun A lizard of the family Chalcididæ. Also chalcid.
  • noun An insect of the family Chalcididæ. Also chalcid.
  • Pertaining or relating to Chalcis, the chief city of the Greek island sometimes called Egripo and Negropont, but now bearing its ancient name Eubœa.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of Chalcis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

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