Lizard vs Skink - What's the difference?
lizard | skink |
Any reptile of the order Squamata, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.
(chiefly, in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
* 1990 October 28, , Warner Bros.
(colloquial) An unctuous person.
(colloquial) A coward.
A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.
(obsolete) drink
(obsolete) pottage
As nouns the difference between lizard and skink
is that lizard is any reptile of the order Squamata, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail while skink is a lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.As a verb skink is
to serve (a drink.lizard
English
(wikipedia lizard)Noun
(en noun)- Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
Derived terms
{{der3, lang=en , legless lizard , lizard fish , lizard-skin , lizard snake , lizard stone , lounge lizard , sleeping lizard , stump-tailed lizard , true lizard , wall lizard , worm lizard}}skink
English
(wikipedia skink)Etymology 1
From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.Noun
- (Francis Bacon)
