English > lizard: 2 senses > noun 1, animal| Meaning | relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail. |
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| Narrower | Lanthanotus borneensis | A stout-bodied pleurodont lizard of Borneo |
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| agamid, agamid lizard | A lizard of the family Agamidae |
| anguid lizard | Any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas |
| chameleon, chamaeleon | lizard of Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue |
| gecko | Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial / terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids |
| iguanid, iguanid lizard | lizards of the New World and Madagascar / Madagascar and some Pacific islands |
| lacertid lizard, lacertid | Old World terrestrial / terrestrial lizard |
| legless lizard | degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards |
| monitor, monitor lizard, varan | Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia |
| night lizard | small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba |
| skink, scincid, scincid lizard | Alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales |
| teiid lizard, teiid | Tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail |
| venomous lizard | Any of two or three large heavy-bodied lizards |
| worm lizard | A lizard of the genus Amphisbaena |
| Broader | saurian | Any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards |
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| Spanish | lacertilia, lagartija, lagarto, lagartos |
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| Catalan | lacertili, llangardaix, sargantana |
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| Adjectives | saurian, lacertilian | of or relating to lizards |
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