Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
lacertian or lacertilioid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Lacertian.
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- adjective
Lizard -like;lacertian .
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Examples
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For me, the big moment of "The Big Picture" was standing in front of Pollock's shimmering, lacertine labyrinth "One: Number 31, 1950," and looking downfield at David Smith's "Australia" 1951.
A Retrospective's Tale of Two Cities Lance Esplund 2010
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Like a lacertine Vicar of Bray, he varies incontinently from buff to blue, and from blue back to orange again, under stress of circumstances.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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The former exhausts itself first in fantastic lacertine forms, twisted into the shapes of the commencing letters or words of the writing, to which the suggestion of some Byzantine MS, perhaps occasionally adds a frame.
Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873
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