Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An order of reptiles, having scales and usually legs, named by Brongniart in 1799, and corresponding closely to the Linnean genus Lacerta; lizards.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of Reptilia formerly established to include the Lacertilia, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, and other groups. By some writers the name is restricted to the Lacertilia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A taxonomic suborder within the order Squamata — the lizards.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun true lizards; including chameleons and geckos

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek σαῦρος (sauros, "lizard").

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Examples

  • Report on the Status Quo is one story (with full illustrations by Sanderson) now collected in my latest cryptofiction-oriented anthology: Sauria Monstra: Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, and Other Fossil Saurians in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Report on the Status Quo is one story (with full illustrations by Sanderson) now collected in my latest cryptofiction-oriented anthology: Sauria Monstra: Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, and Other Fossil Saurians in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy.

    Ivan T. Sanderson's Cryptofiction 2009

  • Charles Sauria amended the odor by adding white phosphorus, and these new matches had to be kept in an airtight box.

    Vesta Cases | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • “As has my homeworld of Sauria,” said Urkral, the engineer.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “As has my homeworld of Sauria,” said Urkral, the engineer.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “As has my homeworld of Sauria,” said Urkral, the engineer.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • A new monitor lizard from Panay Island, Philippines (Reptilia, Sauria, Varanidae).

    Biological diversity in the Philippines 2008

  • Distribution of lizards of the genus Tropidurus in Brazil (Sauria, Iguanidae).

    Campos Rupestres montane savanna 2007

  • Certainly Bayle's opponents of the right (Jurieu and cohorts) and of the left (Sauria, Jacquelot and others) accused him of insincerity and irreligion.

    Bayle's Sincerity Popkin, Richard H. 1967

  • Sauria (lizards, the Amphisbenæ, the little Flying-dragon, &c.) 3.

    The Common Frog 1874

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