Skink vs. Lizard

Skinknoun

A shin of beef.

Skinknoun

A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.

Skinknoun

Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.

Skinknoun

A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.

Skinknoun

(obsolete) A drink.

Skinkverb

To serve (a drink).

Skinkverb

To give as a present.

Skinknoun

Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidæ, common in the warmer parts of all the continents.

Skinknoun

Drink; also, pottage.

Skinkverb

To draw or serve, as drink.

Skinkverb

To serve or draw liquor.

Skinknoun

alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide

Skinknoun

a smooth-bodied lizard with short or absent limbs, typically burrowing in sandy ground, and occurring throughout tropical and temperate regions.

Skink

Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards.

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.