lacertianadj.n.

1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 294 This animal seems, in a certain degree, to have blended the characters of the lacertian branch of Saurians (properly so called) with those of the crocodile.

1847 D. T. Ansted Anc. World viii. 155 The lacertian type—that exhibited in the lizards of the present day.

1877 J. W. Dawson Origin of World xv. 338 The lacertian reptiles.

1914 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 25 348 It is a challenging problem to account for this proclivity to reptilian, lacertian or more specifically serpentine psychoses.

1990 Copeia No. 2. 607/1 This adventurous piece of science fiction..is liberally laced with lacertian allusion.

1995 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 85 246 His friends..could not be brought to think, that crocodilian and lacertian reptiles..can really have existed in that remote period.

2006 Nat. Rev. (Nexis) 14 Dec. The cold, lacertian eyes of our enemies watch for any flicker of hesitance.

1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 291 The whole structure of the roof of the mouth assumes an arrangement completely agreeing with the crocodile, and entirely distinct from that of the other lacertians.

1866 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 156 128 The cartilage-bones have not all appeared, but the membrane-bones have attained to a degree of development almost equal to that which is found in an ordinary adult Lacertian.

1920 H. T. Bray Living Universe (ed. 3) xxii. 293 There were Enaliosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Pleosaurs, Lacertians, and Crocodiles.

1953 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 40 104/1 A fungus commonly found inside the digestive organs of batrachians and lacertians.

2004 K. M. Parsons Great Dinosaur Controv. ii. 20 Mantell automatically identified Iguanodon as a Lacertian (lizard) like living iguanas.