lacertilian

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He had no sooner disappeared into the little room, the door of which he left slightly open, when I mentally consigned the green lizards and, in fact, the whole lacertilian family to a place warmer than the plains of

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of lizards and closely related reptiles; Saurian.

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  • He had no sooner disappeared into the little room, the door of which he left slightly open, when I mentally consigned the green lizards and, in fact, the whole lacertilian family to a place warmer than the plains of —  A Queen's Error
 

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  1. From New Latin Lacertīlia, former suborder name, from Latin lacerta, lizard.

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  1. from Lacertilia + -an.
 

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/læsərˈtɪliən/
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