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In short, it is not a frog or a toad, but a salamander or water-lizard, which lays eggs similar to those of the frog, and whose young upon first hatching look very much like young tadpoles.

The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young Margaret Warner Morley 1890

The hideous large water-lizard (_Amblyrhynchus_), swimming with perfect ease, and capable of an hour's immersion in sea-water; and the land lizard of the same genus, so numerous that at James Island it was hardly possible to find a spot free from their burrows, the roofs of which constantly give way under the pedestrian, were equally strange denizens of this group of islands, where reptiles replace herbivorous mammals.

Life of Charles Darwin 1870

"It was not a crocodile, Jack, but a large water-lizard," said Mr

Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

Other amphibious creatures I perceived at times -- a large water-lizard that almost rivalled the crocodiles in bulk -- and I once had

Ran Away to Sea Mayne Reid 1850

It seizes the anolis, a kind of water-lizard, in the same way.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

If the wind blew with violence, it was because the water-lizard, which makes the wind, had crawled out of his pool; if the lightning was sharp and frequent, it was because the young of the thunder-bird were restless in their nest; if a blight fell upon the corn, it was because the Corn Spirit was angry; and if the beavers were shy and difficult to catch, it was because they had taken offence at seeing the bones of one of their race thrown to a dog.

The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858

"They are varanians, a species of water-lizard, very similar to the iguanas of the

In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847