Word Finder - lizard

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Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.

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(chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

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An unctuous person.

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A coward.

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(rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

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(in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

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lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

The brilliantly coloured red and blue lizard (Agama colonorum) is found in the coast region of eastern Liberia.

The other lizard is one which most appropriately has.

There have also been discovered the remains of a species of swan belonging to the South American genus Chenopis, and of the tuatara (Hatteria) lizard, the unique species of an ancient family now surviving only in New Zealand.

The two leading ships had not seen each other for 70 days and met off the Lizard, from which point they ran a neck-and-neck race before a strong westerly wind, with every rag of canvas set.

This lizard is oviparous.

The monitor, or forktongued lizard, which burrows in the earth, climbs and swims, is said to grow to a length of 8 to 9 f t.

There are four species of lizard and three snakes, none of which is venomous; a land tortoise, a turtle and a frog.

The word dinosaur actually means terrible lizard.

Of the reptiles the leopard lizard and gridiron-tailed lizard, the " chuck-walla " (Sauromalus ater), the rattle-snake, and the horned toad are the most numerous.

The discontented clergy, especially in Livonia; the towns, such as Danzig; the native aristocracy, organized in a league (the Eidechsenbund, or League of the Lizard), all sought to use their opportunity.

The Reptilia include II species of the crocodile, alligator and lizard, including the savage jacare of the Amazon, several species of turtle, 4 species of batrachians, and 29 species of serpents, including the striped rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus), Lachesis mutus, and a rather rare species of Cophias.

In the article Lizard attention is drawn to the many characters which make it difficult, if not impossible, to give diagnoses applicable to all lizards and all snakes.

The green lizard, the fence lizard and whip-tailed lizard (Cnemidophorus gularis; C. sexlineatus; C. tesselatus, &c.) are quite widely distributed.

This lizard when startled rises with the fore-legs off the ground and squats and runs on its hind-legs.

The skink, which has given the name to the whole family, is a small lizard (Scincus officinalis) of 6 or 8 in.

Mind you, neither, it would seem, have broken Lizard.

A very large Nile monitor lizard was seen swimming close to reeds.

A lizard man fires a gun at a giant scorpion.

Yes, a rather sleepy lizard was found to be inhabiting the loo.

Windmill Farm is 1 mile north of Lizard village.

Over the years, the giant lizard has appeared in 28 movies.

With this apparatus some of Marconi's earliest successes, such as telegraphing across the English Channel, were achieved, and telegraphic communication at the rate of fifteen words or so a minute established between the East Goodwin lightship and the South Foreland lighthouse, also between the Isle of Wight and the Lizard in Cornwall.

Among reptiles the various kinds of lizard are noticeable.

The indigenous mammals are very few, and the only reptiles are a small lizard and the green turtle.

The common lizard (Lacerta vivipara) frequents heaths and banks in England and Scotland, and is locally met with also in.

In Easter Island a form of the house-god is the lizard; it is also a tutelary deity in Madagascar.

Professor Poulton long ago suggested, and supported the suggestion by experimental evidence on a lizard, that the larvae of two British species, C. elpenor and C. porcellus, are protected by the resemblance to the heads of snakes presented by the anterior extremities of their bodies which are ornamented with large eye-like spots.

Kop6Aos, signifying lizard and newt; with reduplication Kopcop?uXos, and by metathesis ultimately KpoKOSetXos.

The same root kar leads through something like kar-kar-ta, glakarta (glazard in Breton), to lacerta and to "lizard."

Among the higher passes are Hoosier Pass (10,309 ft.) in the Park Range, and Hayden Divide (10,780) and Veta Pass (9390), both of these across the Sangre de Cristo range; the crossing of the San Miguel chain at Lizard Head Pass (10,250) near Rico; of the Uncompahgre at Dallas Divide (8977) near Ouray; of the Elk and Sawatch ranges at Fremont (11,320), Tennessee (10,229), and Breckenridge (11,470) passes, and the Busk Tunnel, all near Leadville; and Marshall Pass (10,846) above Salida.

Among the venomous reptiles and insects are the rattlesnake, the Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum), a poisonous lizard, and the tarantula (Mygale Heintzii), which, however, are common only in certain places and at certain seasons.

There are three species of snake, including the viper; three of lizard; and eleven of batrachians.

The remarkable features of the scenery of South Devon and Cornwall are due to a narrow band of Archaean rock which appears in the south of the peninsulas terminating in Lizard Head and Start Point, and to huge masses of granite and other eruptive rocks which form a series of great bosses and dykes.

The Apollo Sauroctonus (after Praxiteles), copied in bronze at the Villa Albani in Rome and in marble at Paris, is a naked, youthful, almost boyish figure, leaning against a tree, waiting to strike a lizard climbing up the trunk.

The saurians are represented on land by several species of lizard, some of them conspicuous for their brilliant colouring, and by the large "iguana," whose flesh is considered a great delicacy.

Leaving the high gods whose functions are so large, while their forms (as of lizard, fish and tree) are often so mean, we come to.

Of reptiles the lizard and chameleon are common, and there are a number of venomous serpents, though these are not so numerous as in other tropical countries.

It is unique, however, among the great promontories of the south coast of England, the accretion of gravel banks falling into deep water contrasting with the cliff-bound headlands of the North Foreland, Beachy Head and the Lizard, and with the low eroded Selsey Bill, off which the sea is shallow.

George Cuvier, the French anatomist, recognized that the skull came from a giant marine lizard.

Ranunculus tripartitus three-lobed water crowfoot S S Lizard and West Penwith, where water stands in winter.

I fail to believe that a badger called lizard (the greatest) could beat my rabbit flash Gordon!

Val Kilmer has altered his state more often than Lizard King Jim Morrison, who he portrays with uncanny likeness in THe DOORS.

He found the lizard still busy eating his egg plants.

Without mark or pattern - olive buff in color - this legless lizard is quite common.

Of note there was adder, as well as viviparous lizard and slow worm.

In 1842, he coined the term dinosaur (from the Greek for " terrible lizard " ).

Lizard The common lizard The common lizard is the smallest of three British lizards.

The pattern is in the form of lizard skin in panels, with a central figure of a lizard skin in panels, with a central figure of a lizard.

This green anole lizard was snapped by the last year's overall winner of Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Gabby Salazar.

Apart from a small sand lizard going about its lawful business, there was no sign of life.