lizard

Noun
  1. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (synset 101677105)
    is a type of: saurian - any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
    subtypes:
    • gecko - any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless
    • iguanid, iguanid lizard - lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males
    • worm lizard - a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena; harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail
    • night lizard - small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba; bear live young
    • scincid, scincid lizard, skink - alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide
    • teiid, teiid lizard - tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail
    • agamid, agamid lizard - a lizard of the family Agamidae
    • anguid lizard - any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas; all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects
    • legless lizard - degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards
    • lanthanotus borneensis - a stout-bodied pleurodont lizard of Borneo
    • venomous lizard - any of two or three large heavy-bodied lizards; only known venomous lizards
    • lacertid, lacertid lizard - Old World terrestrial lizard
    • chamaeleon, chameleon - lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue
    • monitor, monitor lizard, varan - any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
  2. A man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him (synset 110294171)
    is a type of: gigolo - a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
    same as: lounge lizard

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