Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various vertebrates of the group Sauria, which includes most of the diapsids, such as the dinosaurs, lizards, snakes, crocodilians, and birds. Sauria was formerly a suborder consisting of the lizards.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging or relating to the Sauria, in any sense; having legs and scales, as a lizard; lacertiform; lacertilian.
- noun A member of the Sauria, in any sense; a scaly reptile with legs, as a lacertilian or lizard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, the Sauria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
reptile of the suborderSauria ; alizard . - adjective Pertaining to the Sauria.
- adjective Resembling a lizard.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to lizards
- noun any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term saurian means "lizard," and it has many prefixes to indicate the different genera and species.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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You don't know just how perfect the word saurian is :-)) You can totally smell it.
Eau de...? Prize Draw Marina Geigert 2009
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It has been appropriately called the saurian whale, for it has both the swiftness and the rapid movements of this monster of our own day.
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It has been appropriately called the saurian whale, for it has both the swiftness and the rapid movements of this monster of our own day.
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866
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Fast forward to the mid-cretaceous “saurian sauna”, when there was no ice at sea level at poles.
AGU Day 2: The role of CO2 in the earth’s history | Serendipity 2009
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Barney ` s lawyers at the New York firm of Gibney, Anthony and Flaherty sent stiff warning letters last week to Web sites displaying less-than-flattering images of the plump saurian, says CNET News.
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The mid-cretaceous “saurian sauna” – no ice at sea level at poles.
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With all saurian ceremony, Menes was sculled over to found a city in about 3000 BC that would worship crocodiles, a city that under Ptolemy II was christened Crocodopolis.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Richard Bangs 2011
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Fast forward to the mid-cretaceous “saurian sauna”, when there was no ice at sea level at poles.
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The mid-cretaceous “saurian sauna” – no ice at sea level at poles.
AGU Day 2: The role of CO2 in the earth’s history | Serendipity 2009
mollusque commented on the word saurian
. . . he was one of the very few larger saurians in the émigré marshes who followed me in 1939 to the hospitable and altogether admirable U.S.A., where with egg-laying promptness he founded a Russian-language quarterly which he is still directing today, thirty-five years later, in his heroic dotage.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 130
June 13, 2009