Lacerta Synonyms

lə-sûrtə
Type genus of the Lacertidae
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. genus Lacerta

Words Related to Lacerta

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. vivipara
  2. agilis
  3. anolis
  4. Spiny-footed
  5. Spiny-tailed
  6. slow-worm
  7. madagascarensis

Lacerta Sentence Examples

  • The common lizard (Lacerta vivipara) frequents heaths and banks in England and Scotland, and is locally met with also in.

  • Much scarcer is the second species, the sand-lizard (Lacerta agilis), which is confined to some localities in the south of England, the New Forest and its vicinity; it does not appear to attain on English soil the same size as on the continent of Europe where it abounds, growing sometimes to a length of 9 in.

  • The third British species, the green lizard (Lacerta viridis), does not occur in England proper; it has, found a congenial home in the island of Guernsey, but is there much less developed as regards size and beauty than on the continent.

  • The same root kar leads through something like kar-kar-ta, glakarta (glazard in Breton), to lacerta and to "lizard."

  • Lacerta in turn has become, in Spanish, lagarto, which, with the article, el lagarto, is the origin of the term "alligator."

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