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English word lizard comes from Latin lacerta (Lizard.)
lacerta (Latin)
Lizard.
lacertus (Latin)
(anatomy) The arm.. (anatomy) The muscular part of the upper arm, including the shoulder, biceps, and triceps.. (anatomy, Late Latin) A muscle. Alternative form of lacerta: a lizard.
lesard (Old French)
lusard (Anglo-Norman)
lizard (English)
(chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.. (colloquial) A coward.. (colloquial) An unctuous person.. (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.. (rock paper scissors) A 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 [...]