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adj. - Of or relating to lizards.

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  • Iguanas are one of the five generally recognized infraorders of the lacertilian suborder of reptiles which includes all lizards.
  • It was raspy and rumbling, and even if it had come from the monitor's mouth, it would have been much too resonant for a lacertilian throat.
  • Woritak stuck needles into my ribs and slowly the acute pain vanished, leaving only leftover aches from my encounters with the lacertilian and Bron's trail-stompers.
  • He had no sooner disappeared into the little room, the door of which he left slightly open, when I mentally consigned the green lizards and, in fact, the whole...
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  • This word was used in the 2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee finals.
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