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lacertian

Part of speech: Adjective

Pert. 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.