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Definition of Lizards
1. lizard [n] - See also: lizard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lizards
Literary usage of Lizards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Snake-like lizards ; forelegs absent; hind-legs a pair of scaly flaps; ...
Consult Boulenger, 'Catalogue of lizards in the British Museum' (London 1887) ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"That they exist is amply proved by the careful predilection for certain kinds of
food which is shown especially by vegetarian tortoises and lizards, ..."
3. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"Our Indian informants considered the swifts and j / horned lizards harmless ...
They informed us that neither snakes nor lizards are used as food at present ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Orders: Lacertilia (lizards) ; Ophidia (Serpents). A more elaborate scheme, but
one which more correctly expresses the natural relationships of the orders, ..."
5. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"I am not sure that lizards were ever delineated by. the Islanders, ... The only
spontaneous representations of lizards known to me are two engravings on a ..."
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