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lacertian
Part of speech: AdjectivePert. to the family of lizards.
Usage examples "lacertian":- Although the head is wanting in all the examples yet found, they clearly belong to the Lacertian order, and are therefore of a higher grade than any other vertebrate animal hitherto found fossil in a Palaeozoic rock. - "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell.
- What the Protamniota were like, I do not suppose any one is in a position to say, but I cannot think that the thoroughly Lacertian Protorosaurus had anything to do with them. - "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley.