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13 words match “LACERT”

LACERT n.
A muscle of the human body. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LACERTA n. 3 definitions
A fathom. [Obs.] Domesday Book.
LACERTIAN a. 2 definitions
Like a lizard; of or pertaining to the Lacertilia. -- n.
LACERTILIA n.
An order of Reptilia, which includes the lizards.
LACERTILIAN a.
Same as Lacertian.
LACERTILOID a.
Like or belonging to the Lacertilia.
LACERTINE a.
Lacertian.
LACERTUS n.
A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibers.
FISSILINGUIA n.
A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including the common lizards. [Written also Fissilingues.]
LIZARD n.
Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.
MUD n.
er can settle for removal. -- Mud eel (Zoöl.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian (Siren lacertina), found in the Southern United States. It has persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of legs. See Siren. -- Mud frog (Zoöl.), a European frog (Pelobates fuscus). -- Mud hen. (Zoöl.) (a) The American coot…
SAURIA n.
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.
SIREN n.
wamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.