Definition of Scincid

1. Noun. Alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide.

Exact synonyms: Scincid Lizard, Skink
Generic synonyms: Lizard
Group relationships: Family Scincidae, Scincidae
Specialized synonyms: Eumeces Skiltonianus, Western Skink, Eumeces Callicephalus, Mountain Skink

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scincid

scillitin
scima
scimetar
scimetars
scimitar
scimitar horned oryx
scimitar horned oryxes
scimitar sign
scimitar syndrome
scimitarbill
scimitarbills
scimitarlike
scimitars
scimiter
scimiters
scincid (current term)
scincid lizard
scincoid
scincoidea
scincoidian
scincoids
scinderin
sciniph
sciniphs
scink
scinticisternography
scintigram
scintigrams
scintigraphic
scintigraphic angiography

Literary usage of Scincid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"scincid^E, 113. bb. Premaxillary single; temporal fossa? not roofed; sternal fontanelle ... scincid^J. (THE SKINKS.) Head regularly shielded; scales smooth, ..."

2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"scincid^E. — SKINKS.—SAURIA with tongue scaly, and only slightly nicked; limbs may be reduced or absent; strongly developed bony plates on head and body. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1892)
"This process is especially elongate in the scincid;e. The arcade is the anterior border of the petrosal m the Permian ..."

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