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Lizard vs Squamate - What's the difference?

lizard | squamate | Hyponyms |

Squamate is a hyponym of lizard.



As nouns the difference between lizard and squamate

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 squamate is any reptile of the order Squamata.

As an adjective squamate is

covered in scales.

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}}

    squamate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, zoology) Covered in scales.
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 45:
    • The ground here, it seems, is a mecca for the costive denizens of the Sahel, an unspoiled latrine for Mother Nature and all her feathered, furred and squamate creation.

    Synonyms

    * scaly * squamose

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any reptile of the order Squamata.
  • * {{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 6, Michael J. Benton, The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time, Science citation
    • , passage=In particular, dinosaurs did not participate in the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution, some 130 to 100 Ma, when flowering plants, leaf-eating insects, social insects, squamates , and many other modern groups radiated substantially. }}

    Hyponyms

    * lizard * snake ----