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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lizard" is a kind of...):
saurian (any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lizard"):
gecko (any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless)
iguanid; iguanid lizard (lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males)
worm lizard (a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena; harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail)
night lizard (small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba; bear live young)
scincid; scincid lizard; skink (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)
teiid; teiid lizard (tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail)
agamid; agamid lizard (a lizard of the family Agamidae)
anguid lizard (any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas; all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects)
legless lizard (degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards)
Lanthanotus borneensis (a stout-bodied pleurodont lizard of Borneo)
venomous lizard (any of two or three large heavy-bodied lizards; only known venomous lizards)
lacertid; lacertid lizard (Old World terrestrial lizard)
chamaeleon; chameleon (lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue)
monitor; monitor lizard; varan (any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
Synonyms:
lizard; lounge lizard
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lizard" is a kind of...):
gigolo (a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman)
Context examples:
Challenger and Summerlee had gone off together that day to the lake where some of the natives, under their direction, were engaged in harpooning specimens of the great lizards.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy him; but I fear that no weapon wrought alone by man's hand would have any effect on him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
One had to pinch oneself to be sure that one was awake as one heard this sane and practical Professor in cold measured tones describing the monstrous three-eyed fish-lizards and the huge water-snakes which inhabit this enchanted sheet of water.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The head was like that of a fowl, the body that of a bloated lizard, the trailing tail was furnished with upward-turned spikes, and the curved back was edged with a high serrated fringe, which looked like a dozen cocks' wattles placed behind each other.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Around its edge were scattered a number of leathern thongs cut from iguanodon hide, and a large collapsed membrane which proved to be the dried and scraped stomach of one of the great fish lizards from the lake.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If every living thing were swept from the country the future explorer would find upon the walls of these caves ample evidence of the strange fauna—the dinosaurs, iguanodons, and fish lizards—which had lived so recently upon earth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
