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Aurian vs Saurian - What's the difference?

aurian | saurian |

As adjectives the difference between aurian and saurian

is that aurian is describing minerals that contain gold while saurian is pertaining to the Sauria.

As a noun saurian is

a reptile of the suborder Sauria; a lizard.

aurian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (mineralogy) Describing minerals that contain gold

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    saurian

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A reptile of the suborder Sauria ; a lizard.
  • *1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VI
  • *:After dinner we all went on deck and watched the unfamiliar scenes of a Capronian night--that is, all but von Schoenvorts. There was less to see than to hear. From the great inland lake behind us came the hissing and the screaming of countless saurians . Above us we heard the flap of giant wings, while from the shore rose the multitudinous voices of a tropical jungle--of a warm, damp atmosphere such as must have enveloped the entire earth during the Palezoic and Mesozoic eras.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the Sauria.
  • Resembling a lizard.

    • Synonyms

    * lacertilian

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