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  • noun Plural form of lizard.

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Examples

  • In Zootaxa 1394: 1-23 (2007) a new species of spiny-tailed lizards is described from South-West Arabia.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Genetic tests conducted at the University of Liverpool have proved that all four born to a female called Sungai were conceived by parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction that is known to take place in lizards but never documented in this species before.

    Virgins and dragons | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

  • 'The genetics of self-fertilization in lizards means that all her hatchlings would have to be male.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

  • From the Guardian Life section, How to pick a winning hand every time: Simon Singh on the Rock-Paper-Scissors game; and a natural example in lizards, The rock-paper-scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies.

    Archive 2004-10-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • From the Guardian Life section, How to pick a winning hand every time: Simon Singh on the Rock-Paper-Scissors game; and a natural example in lizards, The rock-paper-scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies.

    Links purge 17th Oct 2004 Ray Girvan 2004

  • My favorite of the lovable lizards is The Muffin Muncher, a dragon who’s used his fierce appearance to demand tax of tasty muffins from a nearby castle teeming with bakers.

    Here There Be Monsters « Write Anything 2010

  • Man: "The lizards are a buck each, the parrot is $500."

    I am Gonna Get You So Many Lizards! Julie D. 2004

  • "Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said.

    So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984

  • Here we reach the end of the order of reptiles known as lizards; the next order is that of the snakes.

    Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Alan Douglas

  • The noun _reptiles_, naming the class of the animals called lizards, performs a like office for the asserting word are.

    Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

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  • Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards.

    --Barbara Kingsolver, 2009, The Lacuna, p. 393

    February 5, 2010