What does Lizard mean?
Definitions for Lizard
ˈlɪz ərdlizard
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Princeton's WordNet
lizardnoun
relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
lounge lizard, lizardnoun
a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
Wiktionary
lizardnoun
Any reptile of the order Squamata, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
lizardnoun
Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
lizardnoun
An unctuous person.
lizardnoun
A coward.
Etymology: From lusard, from lesard (French: lézard), from lacertus.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Lizardnoun
An animal resembling a serpent, with legs added to it.
Etymology: lisarde, French; lacertus, Latin.
There are several sorts of lizards; some in Arabia of a cubit long. In America they eat lizards; it is very probable likewise that they were eaten sometimes in Arabia and Judæa, since Moses ranks them among the unclean creatures. Augustin Calmet.
Thou’rt like a foul mis-shapen stigmatick,
Mark’d by the destinies to be avoided,
As venomous toads, or lizards dreadful stings. William Shakespeare.Adder’s fork, and blind worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.
Wikipedia
Lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia although some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they are to other lizards. Lizards range in size from chameleons and geckos a few centimeters long to the 3-meter-long Komodo dragon. Most lizards are quadrupedal, running with a strong side-to-side motion. Some lineages (known as "legless lizards"), have secondarily lost their legs, and have long snake-like bodies. Some such as the forest-dwelling Draco lizards are able to glide. They are often territorial, the males fighting off other males and signalling, often with bright colours, to attract mates and to intimidate rivals. Lizards are mainly carnivorous, often being sit-and-wait predators; many smaller species eat insects, while the Komodo eats mammals as big as water buffalo. Lizards make use of a variety of antipredator adaptations, including venom, camouflage, reflex bleeding, and the ability to sacrifice and regrow their tails.
ChatGPT
lizard
A lizard is a type of reptile featuring scaly skin, a typically elongated body, and four legs, although some species may lack legs. They are part of the order Squamata and are known for their ability to shed their tails as a defensive mechanism. They are cold-blooded, which means their body temperature varies with their environment. They're found in diverse habitats across the world and have varied sizes, from a few centimeters to several meters. Lizards usually lay eggs, but some species give birth to live young. Their diets are diverse, ranging from fruits and plants to insects and other small animals.
Webster Dictionary
Lizardnoun
any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria
Lizardnoun
a piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends
Lizardnoun
a piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field
Etymology: [OE. lesarde, OF. lesarde, F. lzard, L. lacerta, lacertus. Cf. Alligator, Lacerta.]
Wikidata
Lizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with more than 5,600 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group, traditionally recognized as the suborder Lacertilia, is defined as all extant members of the Lepidosauria that are neither sphenodonts nor snakes – they form an evolutionary grade. While the snakes are recognized as falling phylogenetically within the Toxicofera clade from which they evolved, the sphenodonts are the sister group to the squamates, the larger monophyletic group, which includes both the lizards and the snakes. Lizards typically have feet and external ears, while snakes lack both of these characteristics. However, because they are defined negatively as excluding snakes, lizards have no unique distinguishing characteristic as a group. Lizards and snakes share a movable quadrate bone, distinguishing them from the sphenodonts, which have more primitive and solid diapsid skulls. Many lizards can detach their tails to escape from predators, an act called autotomy. Vision, including color vision, is particularly well developed in most lizards, and most communicate with body language or bright colors on their bodies, as well as with pheromones.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Lizard
liz′ard, n. a family of four-footed scaly reptiles, a saurian or lacertilian.—n. Liz′ard-stone, a Cornish serpentine. [Fr. lézard—L. lacerta.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
lizard
A piece of rope, sometimes with two legs, and one or more iron thimbles spliced into it. It is used for various purposes; one is often made fast to the topsail-tye, for the buntlines to reeve through, to confine them to the centre of the yard. A lizard with a tail and thimble is used as a fair lead, to lead out where the lift runs in a line with the object. The lower boom topping-lift is thus helped by carrying the lizard out to the fore-brace block. In yards sent aloft ready for crossing, the lizard confines the yard rope until the order is given, "Sway across," when, letting the lizard run, all cross simultaneously.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Lizard in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Lizard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of Lizard in a Sentence
At this point, the lizard was removed from the cooler and the internal body temperature of the lizard was recorded as its lower temperature limit, lizards were then allowed to return to room temperature ; every single lizard in this study recovered back to full health after just a few minutes.
Lizard No.3 or Lizard No.4; it doesn't get you that excited. You need it to be Pikachu.
Turtles have been missing their Archaeopteryx, their missing link to the rest of the vertebrate tree, since Darwin told us that we should be looking for one, with Odontochelys, Pappochelys and now Eunotosaurus, we now have a remarkable series of transitional forms that take us from an almost lizard-like creature to the modern turtle body plan that is so interesting and bizarre.
You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.
I am the lizard king. I can do anything.
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- سحليةArabic
- ještěrkaCzech
- firbenDanish
- EidechseGerman
- σαύραGreek
- lacertoEsperanto
- lagartoSpanish
- مارمولکPersian
- liskoFinnish
- lézardFrench
- laghairtIrish
- छिपकलीHindi
- gyíkHungarian
- մողեսArmenian
- kadalIndonesian
- lucertolaItalian
- לטאהHebrew
- トカゲJapanese
- ಹಲ್ಲಿKannada
- 도마뱀Korean
- lacertaLatin
- hagedisDutch
- øgleNorwegian
- jaszczurkaPolish
- lagartoPortuguese
- şopârlăRomanian
- ящерицаRussian
- ödlaSwedish
- பல்லிTamil
- బల్లిTelugu
- กิ้งก่าThai
- kertenkeleTurkish
- ящіркаUkrainian
- چھپکلیUrdu
- con thằn lằnVietnamese
- יאַשטשערקעYiddish
- 蜥蜴Chinese
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