
English word lizard comes from Latin lacerta (Lizard.)
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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 [...]