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Lizard vs Lacertid - What's the difference?

lizard | lacertid |

As nouns the difference between lizard and lacertid

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 lacertid is any lizard of the family lacertidae or lacertid can be (astronomy) a type of blazar (highly variable active galactic nucleus) that lacks spectral emission lines characteristic of quasars.

lizard

English

(wikipedia lizard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • Silver bells jingling from your black lizard boots, my baby / Silver foil to trim your wedding gown
  • (colloquial) An unctuous person.
  • (colloquial) A coward.

    • 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}}

    lacertid

    English

    Etymology 1

    (Lacertidae) From (etyl) Lacertidae.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any lizard of the family Lacertidae.
  • * 1993 , George R. Zug, Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles , page 427,
    • Lacertid' scalation and body forms are similar to those of the teiids, although ' lacertids are usually smaller.
  • * 2004 , Daniel A. Greenberg, Lizards , page 33,
    • Lacertids' are distinguished by a section of large, flat scales on the undersides of their necks.Teiids are the New World counterparts to ' lacertids .
  • * 2006 , Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity , page 206,
    • Lacertid' teeth are hollow at the base (teiid teeth are solid). Virtually all '''lacertids are terrestrial or rock-dwelling lizards, although a few species, including ''Holaspis'' and ''Takydromus , climb in vegetation, and at least one species appears to live high in trees.
    Synonyms
    * (lizard of family Lacertidae) lacerta, true lizard, wall lizard

    Etymology 2

    From the name of the first discovered example, .

    Alternative forms

    * BL Lacertid * Lacertid

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) A type of blazar (highly variable active galactic nucleus) that lacks spectral emission lines characteristic of quasars.
  • * 1975' July 10, ''Quasars and '''Lacertids show a family likeness'', '' , page 61,
    • In the same diagram a compact galaxy, 3C 371, and a Seyfert, 3C 120, lie very close to the Lacertids .
  • * 1990 , Bulletin of the Special Astrophysical Observatory-North Caucasus , Volumes 24-26, page 67,
    • These reliably variable objects included three ROCOSs (OE 400, OI 090.4, and PI034-293) and two lacertids (AO 0235+164 and OJ 287).
  • * 1993 , Astronomy Reports , Volume 37, Pages 329-688, American Institute of Physics, page 466,
    • We have identified six radio sources in the Zelenchuk (RATAN-600) catalog with two quasars, two lacertids , and two pairs of galaxies.
    Synonyms
    * (astronomical object) active galactic nucleus, blazar, BL Lac object, BL Lacertae object

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