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It's believed to be the third alien gecko to migrate to Kansas, after the Italian wall lizard and the western green lacerta.
And now the news 2006
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Nunc cantu crebro rumpunt arbusta cicadae nunc varia in gelida sede lacerta latet.
Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
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As others of the genus of lacerta they feed on flies and grasshoppers, which the large size of their mouths and peculiar structure of their bony tongues are well adapted for catching.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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Prifc* nca lacerta the herb night-Jhade or bane-wort PHn. the eaftcrly ivind Vitr. placed under the fun; fubftantivelyj the Plin. eafterly * wind filar y of or belonging to the fun Sen. I that is under the fun Sarifb.
Stemmata Latinitatis; or, An etymological Latin dictionary Nicholas Salmon 1796
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The two animals are spotted, but the spots of the lacerta punc - tata are white: those of this species a fine yellow.
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nunc uaria in gelida sede lacerta latet: si sapis, aestiuo recubans nunc prolue uitro,
Aetatis Augusteae. Post Mortem Nulla Voluptas Anonymous 1912
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PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH. inserta phialae Mentoris manu ducta lacerta vivit et timetur argentum (iii.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
chained_bear commented on the word lacerta
"Lacerta, the Lizard, in astronomy, one of the new constellations of the northern hemisphere, added by Hevelius to the 48 old ones, near Cepheus and Cassiopeia."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 213
October 12, 2008