|
|
Definition of Lacertilia
1. Noun. True lizards; including chameleons and geckos.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Squamata, Squamata
Member holonyms: Saurian, Family Gekkonidae, Gekkonidae, Family Pygopodidae, Pygopodidae, Family Iguania, Family Iguanidae, Iguania, Iguanidae, Amphisbaenidae, Family Amphisbaenidae, Family Xantusiidae, Xantusiidae, Family Scincidae, Scincidae, Cordylidae, Family Cordylidae, Family Teiidae, Teiidae, Agamidae, Family Agamidae, Anguidae, Family Anguidae, Family Xenosauridae, Xenosauridae, Anniellidae, Family Anniellidae, Family Lanthanotidae, Lanthanotidae, Family Helodermatidae, Helodermatidae, Family Lacertidae, Lacertidae, Chamaeleonidae, Chamaeleontidae, Family Chamaeleonidae, Family Chamaeleontidae, Family Rhiptoglossa, Rhiptoglossa, Family Varanidae, Varanidae
Derivative terms: Lacertilian, Saurian
Definition of Lacertilia
1. n. pl. An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards.
Medical Definition of Lacertilia
1.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacertilia
Literary usage of Lacertilia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"ON DEGENERATE TYPES OF SCAPULAR AND PELVIC ARCHES IN THE lacertilia. ED COPE.1
PALEONTOLOGY has rendered it possible to assert that the rudimental condition ..."
2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"The distribution of the lacertilia is, in many particulars, strikingly opposed
to that of the Ophidia. The Oriental, instead of being the richest is one of ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"The squamosal of the lacertilia and Ophidia is connected with the parietals and
stands on the quadrate, outside of this element we have in the lacertilia ..."
4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"lacertilia. The shoulder girdle is formed as two membranous plates, from the
dorsal part of the anterior border of each of which a bar projects (Rathke, ..."
5. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introduction on by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"lacertilia.—The third order of Reptiles is that of the lacertilia, ... The lacertilia
are distinguished by the following characters :— As a general rule, ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"ON THE REDUCTION OF THE SCAPULAE AND PELVIC ARCHES AXD LIMBS IN lacertilia.
By Prof. ED COPE, Philadelphia, Pa. [ABSTRACT.] THE reduction in the limbs as ..."
Other Resources:
