lizard
Example Sentences
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And the crickets and lizards and other small creatures that usually inhabited woods like this?
From Literature
It may have resembled a lizard, but it lived before reptiles and mammals branched into separate evolutionary paths, so it was not technically a reptile.
From Science Daily
It’s not exactly a chicken and dinosaur-egg question, but which came first, the mammal or the giant lizard?
"Well, you make a pretty good lizard, Sam. Why don't you slither downstairs and eat some insects? That's what lizards do. Go out in the yard and find a nice juicy caterpillar for lunch, okay?"
From Literature
A section of one wall was given over to cages filled with rabbits and doves, as well as an odd selection of toads, lizards and— Jeremy squinted to be sure— yes, bats!
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
