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 theorder Squamata — thelizards .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun true lizards; including chameleons and geckos
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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.
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Charles Sauria amended the odor by adding white phosphorus, and these new matches had to be kept in an airtight box.
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“As has my homeworld of Sauria,” said Urkral, the engineer.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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“As has my homeworld of Sauria,” said Urkral, the engineer.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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“As has my homeworld of Sauria,” said Urkral, the engineer.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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A new monitor lizard from Panay Island, Philippines (Reptilia, Sauria, Varanidae).
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Distribution of lizards of the genus Tropidurus in Brazil (Sauria, Iguanidae).
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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
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Sauria (lizards, the Amphisbenæ, the little Flying-dragon, &c.) 3.
The Common Frog 1874
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