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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.
Generic synonyms: Lizard
Group relationships: Family Scincidae, Scincidae
Specialized synonyms: Eumeces Skiltonianus, Western Skink, Eumeces Callicephalus, Mountain Skink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scincid
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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