Results for Lacertian

Definitions of Lacertian:

Pert. to the family of lizards.

Usage examples for Lacertian:

• Although the head is wanting in all the examples yet found, they clearly belong to the Lacertian order, and are therefore of a higher grade than any other vertebrate animal hitherto found fossil in a Palaeozoic rock. "The Student's Elements of Geology", Sir Charles Lyell

• What the Protamniota were like, I do not suppose any one is in a position to say, but I cannot think that the thoroughly Lacertian Protorosaurus had anything to do with them. "Critiques and Addresses", Thomas Henry Huxley