Lizard vs. Reptile

Lizardnoun

Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.

Lizardnoun

Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

Lizardnoun

(colloquial) An unctuous person.

Lizardnoun

(colloquial) A coward.

Lizardnoun

(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 and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

Lizardnoun

(in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

Lizardnoun

Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.

Lizardnoun

A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

Lizardnoun

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

Lizardnoun

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

Lizardnoun

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

Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia; some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they are to other lizards.

Reptilenoun

A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.

Reptilenoun

(figuratively) A mean or grovelling person.

Reptileadjective

Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

Reptileadjective

Grovelling; low; vulgar.

Reptileadjective

Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.

Reptileadjective

Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.

Reptilenoun

An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.

Reptilenoun

One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.

Reptilenoun

A groveling or very mean person.

Reptilenoun

any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises turtles snakes lizards alligators crocodiles and extinct forms

Reptile

Reptiles, as most commonly defined, are the animals in the class Reptilia , a paraphyletic grouping comprising all amniotes except synapsids (mammals and their extinct relatives) and Aves (birds). The class comprises turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.