lizard
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Noun (2)lizards
- relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tailType of saurianKinds monitor, teiid lizard, agamid, worm lizard, venomous lizard, legless lizard, lacertid lizard, chameleon, iguanid, anguid lizard +4 more
- a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support himSynonyms: lounge lizardType of gigolo
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Translations
Noun reptile
- Spanish
- lagarto
- French
- lézard
- German
- Eidechse
- Italian
- lucertola
- Portuguese
- lagarto
- Turkish
- kertenkele
- Russian
- я́щерица jáščerica
- Arabic
- سِحْلِيَّة siḥliyya
- Chinese
- 蜥蜴 xīyì
- Japanese
- トカゲ tokage
35 more languages
- Dutch
- hagedis
- Polish
- jaszczurka
- Swedish
- ödla
- Greek
- σαύρα sávra
- Korean
- 도마뱀 domabaem
- Indonesian
- kadal
- Vietnamese
- thằn lằn
- Hungarian
- gyík
- Portuguese (PT)
- lagarto
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 蜥蜴 xīyì
- Albanian
- hardhucë
- Breton
- kazh-raden
- Catalan
- llangardaix
- Czech
- ještěrka
- Danish
- firben
- Esperanto
- lacerto
- Estonian
- sisalik
- Finnish
- lisko
- Georgian
- ხვლიკი xvliḳi
- Hebrew
- לְטָאָה l'ta'á
- Icelandic
- eðla
- Kurdish
- marmarok
- Latvian
- ķirzaka
- Lithuanian
- driežas
- Malagasy
- androngo
- Norwegian
- øgle
- Romanian
- șopârlă
- Scottish Gaelic
- laghairt
- Serbo-Croatian
- gušter
- Slovak
- jašterica
- Slovenian
- kuščar
- Swahili
- mjusi
- Walloon
- cwarpece
- Welsh
- madfall
- Yiddish
- יאַשטשערקע yashtsherke
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. lesarde, OF. lesarde, F. lézard, L. lacerta, lacertus. Cf. Alligator, Lacerta.
1. Zoology Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
☞ Most lizards have an elongated body, with four legs, and a long tail; but there are some without legs, and some with a short, thick tail. Most have scales, but some are naked; most have eyelids, but some do not. The tongue is varied in form and structure. In some it is forked, in others, as the chameleons, club-shaped, and very extensible. See Amphisbæna, Chameleon, Gecko, Gila monster, Horned toad, Iguana, and Dragon, 6.
2. Nautical A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends. R. H. Dana, Ir.
3. A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.
Lizard snake Zoology, the garter snake (Eutænia sirtalis). — Lizard stone Mineralogy, a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, England, — used for ornamental purposes.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54