Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various lizards and closely related reptiles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the Lacertilia, or having their characters; lacertiform; saurian.
- noun One of the Lacertilia; a saurian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Same as
lacertian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to the reptilian suborder Lacertilia.
- adjective
Lizard like. - noun A
reptile of suborder Lacertilia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to lizards
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Iguanidae family is only one of about 17 families of the lacertilian suborder; it includes the subfamilies of iguana iguanas (green) and spiny-tailed (black) iguanas which are abundant in the Puerto Vallarta, Mexico area.
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Iguanas are one of the five generally recognized infraorders of the lacertilian suborder of reptiles which includes all lizards.
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Iguanas are one of the five generally recognized infraorders of the lacertilian suborder of reptiles which includes all lizards.
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The Iguanidae family is only one of about 17 families of the lacertilian suborder; it includes the subfamilies of iguana iguanas (green) and spiny-tailed (black) iguanas which are abundant in the Puerto Vallarta, Mexico area.
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"I had my base camp here" — a red square — "and I was tracking this humpback lacertilian through here" — dotted yellow meanders.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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Woritak stuck needles into my ribs and slowly the acute pain vanished, leaving only leftover aches from my encounters with the lacertilian and Bron's trail-stompers.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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It was raspy and rumbling, and even if it had come from the monitor's mouth, it would have been much too resonant for a lacertilian throat.
The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996
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He had no sooner disappeared into the little room, the door of which he left slightly open, when I mentally consigned the green lizards and, in fact, the whole lacertilian family to a place warmer than the plains of
A Queen's Error Henry Curties
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