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- noun Plural form of
lizard .
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In Zootaxa 1394: 1-23 (2007) a new species of spiny-tailed lizards is described from South-West Arabia.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Genetic tests conducted at the University of Liverpool have proved that all four born to a female called Sungai were conceived by parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction that is known to take place in lizards but never documented in this species before.
Virgins and dragons | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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'The genetics of self-fertilization in lizards means that all her hatchlings would have to be male.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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From the Guardian Life section, How to pick a winning hand every time: Simon Singh on the Rock-Paper-Scissors game; and a natural example in lizards, The rock-paper-scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies.
Archive 2004-10-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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From the Guardian Life section, How to pick a winning hand every time: Simon Singh on the Rock-Paper-Scissors game; and a natural example in lizards, The rock-paper-scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies.
Links purge 17th Oct 2004 Ray Girvan 2004
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My favorite of the lovable lizards is The Muffin Muncher, a dragon who’s used his fierce appearance to demand tax of tasty muffins from a nearby castle teeming with bakers.
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Man: "The lizards are a buck each, the parrot is $500."
I am Gonna Get You So Many Lizards! Julie D. 2004
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"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said.
So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984
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Here we reach the end of the order of reptiles known as lizards; the next order is that of the snakes.
Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Alan Douglas
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The noun _reptiles_, naming the class of the animals called lizards, performs a like office for the asserting word are.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
mollusque commented on the word lizards
Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards.
--Barbara Kingsolver, 2009, The Lacuna, p. 393
February 5, 2010