lacertilia
IPA: ɫɑtʃˈɛrtˈiɫiʌ
noun
- true lizards; including chameleons and geckos
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Examples of "lacertilia" in Sentences
- Madagascar in perfect independence of the similarly-formed American lacertilia: just as certain teeth of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupial animals have been seen most closely to resemble those of carnivorous and insectivorous placental beasts; just as, again, the paddles of the Cetacea resemble, in the fact of a multiplication in the number of the phalanges, the many-jointed feet of extinct marine reptiles, and as the beak of the cuttle-fish or of the tadpole resembles that of birds.