Definitions
Old World terrestrial lizard
Word origin
From translingual Lacertidae.
Used in a sentence
“Lacertid scalation and body forms are similar to those of the teiids, although lacertids are usually smaller.”
“Lacertids are distinguished by a section of large, flat scales on the undersides of their necks.[…]Teiids are the New World counterparts to lacertids.”
“In the same diagram a compact galaxy, 3C 371, and a Seyfert, 3C 120, lie very close to the Lacertids.”
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