chalcidian

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pertaining or relating to Chalcis, the chief city of the Greek island sometimes called Egripo and Negropont, but now bearing its ancient name Eubœa.
2. n. A native or an inhabitant of Chalcis.
3. n. An insect of the family Chalcididæ. Also chalcid.
4. Belonging to or having the characters of the lizards called Chalcididæ. See Chalcididæ.
5. n. A lizard of the family Chalcididæ. Also chalcid.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.