lizard的意思|lizard的解释-里氏词典

lizard ['lizәd]

n. 蜥蜴

[医] 蜥蜴

lizard

[ noun ]

relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail

<noun.animal>

a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him

<noun.person>

Lizard \Liz"ard\, n. [OE. lesarde, OF. lesarde, F. l['e]zard, L.
lacerta, lacertus. Cf. {Alligator}, {Lacerta}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of the numerous species of reptiles
belonging to the order {Lacertilia}; sometimes, also
applied to reptiles of other orders, as the {Hatteria}.

Note: Most lizards have an elongated body, with four legs,
and a long tail; but there are some without legs, and
some with a short, thick tail. Most have scales, but
some are naked; most have eyelids, but some do not. The
tongue is varied in form and structure. In some it is
forked, in others, as the chameleons, club-shaped, and
very extensible. See {Amphisb[ae]na}, {Chameleon},
{Gecko}, {Gila monster}, {Horned toad}, {Iguana}, and
{Dragon}, 6.

2. (Naut.) A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into
one or both of the ends. --R. H. Dana, Ir.

3. A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a
heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.

{Lizard snake} (Zo["o]l.), the garter snake ({Eut[ae]nia
sirtalis}).

{Lizard stone} (Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard
Point, Cornwall, England, -- used for ornamental purposes.

Steve Crothers thought his pet lizard was a goner until he began hearing about sightings of a creature variously described by frightened residents as a 6-foot alligator or a diminuitive Godzilla.
But the lizard turned the tables, hissing loudly and thrusting its long, forked tongue as it chased Faulkner.
The lizard taught the shy boy, whose family moved 14 times, to make friends.
In one "Across the USA" segment lasting less than a minute, viewers hear about a new Bloomingdale's in Chicago; a man jailed for wearing sneakers; and a four-foot-long lizard captured beneath someone's house.
Though the small, brown-striped lizard was gently resting in a single hand, it was as though it was being held by two different people.
One mural, 16 feet by 120 feet, features a 20-foot marine lizard called the mosasaur and a 45-foot Basilosaurus, an ancient whale.
Animal control officers captured Cleopatra on Saturday after a resident reported seeing the lizard.
Suave and dapper in his white suit and Panama hat, Agamemnon is a Latino lounge lizard who's been given his own TV program.
Several Brooktondale residents spotted the lizard Saturday and tried to catch it, but the animal quickly shredded the paper bag it was stuffed into, said Gordon Gabaree, of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
In your earliest home stay you survived the lizard that lived under your bed, chickens scrambling through the house and a goat tied to the front door.
With big-money deals "scarcer than a lizard's smile," Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. is putting frowns on the faces of its investment bankers.
Crothers no longer has room in his life for the reptile, though, so he sold the lizard to a woman for $75 on Sunday.
Crickets sang lustily in the hedge and a lizard scuttled to rest under a stone. The cheeseboard sat on the table, creamy Brie oozing, the milk-white round of chevre reflecting the ghostly glow of the rising moon.
But on Tuesday, he returned to police in this Ocean County community and admitted that another lizard, his "golden tegu" _ a 5-foot-long version _ has been on the loose for about a month.
Developers will pay a $600 mitigation fee for each acre of lizard habitat that is developed outside the preserve.
There's a 5-foot-long Nile monitor lizard in Gilda Centro's shower, and she isn't happy about it.
The lizard escaped and apparently spent Saturday night in the woods.
And the local reptile society announced that the land was home to the little-known smooth snake and sand lizard, and thus a proposed Site of Special Scientific Interest. 'We were rather surprised when they popped out of the grass.
The lizard, which apparently resembled today's Komodo dragon, was perhaps 8 feet long and may have been a juvenile, Novacek said. It may have eaten young dinosaurs or dinosaur eggs, he said.
In addition to the trademark lizard logo taken from a Peruvian stone rubbing and strategically placed on each cover, most of the novels also feature haunting, lurid cover designs by San Francisco artist Jim Kirwin.
Lex Salisbury, curator of the Lowry Park Zoo, said he's never heard of anyone training a lizard.

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