Lizard vs Slowworm - What's the difference?
lizard | slowworm |
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 small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis , often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.
As nouns the difference between lizard and slowworm
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 slowworm is a small old world lizard, anguis fragilis , often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.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}}slowworm
English
(wikipedia slowworm)Alternative forms
* slow worm, slow-wormNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* blindwormReferences
* 2008 , Anatoly Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction ,pages 196-200