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    A lizard is a kind of reptile: a cold-blooded animal with dry skin, usually four short legs and a long tail. Many can drop the tail and grow another if something grabs it. You meet the word in nature films, pet shops, and hot countries. The little ones on Taiwan walls at night — — are lizards too. Snakes are close relatives, but in ordinary English a snake is not a lizard, because a lizard is the one with legs. Though actually a few lizards have tiny legs, or almost none, so the school picture is tidier than the whole animal group. The word is ordinary and clear. It is not rude, and it is not a name for a person unless someone is joking about someone who sits in the sun.

組成From Middle English lesarde, lisarde, from Anglo-Norman lusard, from Old French lesard (French still has lézard), from Latin lacertus, whose own origin is not clear. It took the place of an older English word aske.

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Lizardname

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    A peninsula in southern Cornwall, England.

Lizardname

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    A village in Landewednack parish, on the peninsula near Lizard Point, Cornwall, the most southerly village in England, also known as Lizard Town (OS grid ref SW7012)

lizardnoun/ˈlɪzəd/

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    Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or mosasaur—typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, a long tail and four limbs, although some species are legless.

    • The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
    • The forms of the serpent and lizard exhibit almost every element of beauty and horror in strange combination; […]
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    Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

    • Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
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    An unctuous person.

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    A coward.

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    gamesrock-paper-scissorsA hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

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    A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous woman.

    • lounge lizard; lot lizard; beach lizard; truck stop lizard

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