saurian

• Grinning jaws bared rows of dripping yellow tusks; above the yawning mouth wrinkled a saurian-like snout. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
• The monster saurian, expecting to have a porker for supper, swam on, with jaws open, its wicked eye turned towards me. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• The apparatus held fast, for the saurian fishers were experienced in their business, and had done their work well At eight o'clock the Blanchita reached the mouth of the river. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
• '[5] Soon after, some teeth and fragments of bones were discovered, by which Professor Owen was able to indicate an animal of the frog-family (Batrachia), but with certain affinities to the saurian order (crocodiles, &c.;), and which must have been about the size of a large pig. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
• They proceed to the spot in the Maria Wood_, and the one who secures the interesting saurian is allowed to eat all the green fat. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893

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