fissililiguia

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. A group of lacertilian reptiles, with procœlous vertebræ, cleft, slender, protrusile tongue, two valvular eyelids (except in Ophiops), the legs well developed, and the general aspect not serpentine. The group is made to contain the ordinary lizards of the family Lacertidæ, the monitors or varanians, etc. See Ameiva and Leptoglossa. Also Fissilingues.