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Definition of Suborder sauria
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Sauria
Literary usage of Suborder sauria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"All the lizards within the region here treated of have four limbs and are thus
easily distinguished from the snakes. Suborder SAURIA. 1788. ..."
2. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"All the lizards within the region here treated of have four limbs and are thus
easily distinguished from the snakes. Suborder SAURIA. 1788. ..."
3. Bulletin by Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of the Interior, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States National Museum, United States (1907)
"All the lizards within the region here treated of have four limbs and are thus
easily distinguished from the snakes. Suborder SAURIA. 1788. ..."
4. Herpetology of Porto Rico by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1904)
"Suborder SAURIA. The lizards form the most numerous group of the reptiles in
Porto Rico, there being no less than nineteen species out of a total of twenty- ..."
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