lagarto

After an afternoon in the giant pool and adventures along the river that included sightings of a 3-foot-long lagarto lizard, huge-footed wood rails and hummingbirds, we lolled about in a variety of tiki huts while drinking an excellent bottle of Uruguayan CataMayor Sauvignon Blanc.

A Great Escape Katy McLaughlin 2011

Right now I am visiting family in "Chilangolandia" (México, D.F.) and here López Obrador is known as "El Peje" from the living pre-historic fish "peje lagarto" that thrives in the rivers of his native state Tabasco (also in Florida, I think).

Lopez Obrador or El Chapo Guzman ? 2006

Cientistas descobriram na patagónia fósseis de um lagarto gigante que se passeou pelas planícies geladas argentinas há 150 milhões de anos atrás. a patagónia primitiva devia ser um sítio mesmo interessannte.

Godzilla Artur 2005

Lizard, through such forms as _lesarde_, _lezard_, _lagarto_, _lacerto_, is from the Latin _lacertus_, a lizard; while closely related is the word alligator by way of _lagarto_, _aligarto_, to alligator.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

"Pichijlla, frisolillos o havas con que echan las suertes los sortilegos" [beans used by the sorcerers in casting lots or telling fortunes]; another meaning is "the ridge" (pichijlla, lechijlla, chijllatani, loma o cordillera de sierra); another is "the crocodile" (cocodrillo, lagarto grande de agua); and another "swordfish" (pella-pichijlla-tao, espadarte pescado).

Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. Cyrus Thomas 1867

The lagarto destitute of hinder extremities is perhaps a species of Siren, different from the Siren lacertina of Carolina.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

Thus we have from the Spanish ‘albino’, ‘alligator’ (el lagarto),

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

America, affixed the name of _lagarto_ to the huge reptiles that infested the rivers and estuaries of both continents; and to the present day the Europeans in Ceylon apply the term _alligator_ to what are in reality _crocodiles_, which literally swarm in the still waters and tanks in the low country, but rarely frequent rapid streams, and have never been found in the marshes among the hills.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

America, affixed the name of _lagarto_ to the huge reptiles which infest the rivers and estuaries of both continents; and to the present day the

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

The lagarto destitute of hinder extremities is perhaps a species of Siren, different from the Siren lacertina of Carolina.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814