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LIZARD
lizard
(noun) relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lizard (plural lizards)
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.
(chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
(colloquial) An unctuous person.
(colloquial) A coward.
(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.
(in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
Etymology
Proper noun
the Lizard
A peninsula in southern Cornwall, England.
Source: Wiktionary
Liz"ard, n. Etym: [OE. lesarde, OF. lesarde, F. lézard, L. lacerta, lacertus. Cf. Alligator, Lacerta.]
1. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
Note: 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. (Naut.)
Definition: 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 fish (Zoöl.), a marine scopeloid fish of the genus Synodus, or Saurus, esp. S. foetens of the Southern United States and West Indies; -- called also sand pike.
– Lizard snake (Zoöl.), the garter snake (Eutænia sirtalis).
– Lizard stone (Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, England, -- used for ornamental purposes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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