lizard
IPA: ɫˈɪzɝd
noun
- Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or an amphisbaenian, 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.
- A peninsula in southern Cornwall, England.
- A village in Landewednack parish, on the peninsula near Lizard Point, Cornwall, the most southerly village in England, also known as Lizard Town (OS grid ref SW7012)
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Examples of "lizard" in Sentences
- These lizards bask in the sun.
- He is the only lizard in the gang.
- The lizard is featured in the team's logo.
- A lizard nest is irradiated by the fallout.
- Beware the monitor lizards down by the river.
- The camouflage chosen was the French lizard type.
- The article mentions lizards as prone to the disease.
- Around the far side of the vivarium were the exotic snakes and lizards.
- Venus is a vast swamp world dominated by hulking reptiles and lizard men.
- An assortment of chameleons, lizards and snakes occur in the Anjajavy Forest.
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