lizard | relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail |
iguanid iguanid lizard | lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands, typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males |
zebra-tailed lizard gridiron-tailed lizard Callisaurus draconoides | swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
fringe-toed lizard Uma notata | with long pointed scales around toes, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
earless lizard | any of several slender lizards without external ear openings: of plains of western United States and Mexico |
collared lizard | any of several robust long-tailed lizards with collars of two dark bands, of central and western United States and northern Mexico |
leopard lizard | any of several large lizards with many dark spots, of western United States and northern Mexico |
spiny lizard | any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales, of North America and Central America |
fence lizard | spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico |
western fence lizard swift blue-belly Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
eastern fence lizard pine lizard Sceloporus undulatus | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
sagebrush lizard Sceloporus graciosus | a ground dweller that prefers open ground and scattered low bushes, of United States west between Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains |
side-blotched lizard sand lizard Uta stansburiana | one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States |
tree lizard Urosaurus ornatus | a climbing lizard of western United States and northern Mexico |
horned lizard horned toad horny frog | insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body, of western North America |
Texas horned lizard Phrynosoma cornutum | of arid and semiarid open country |
worm lizard | a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena, harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail |
night lizard | small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba, bear live young |
skink scincid scincid lizard | alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales, more dependent on moisture than most lizards, found in tropical regions worldwide |
teiid lizard teiid | tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail |
whiptail whiptail lizard | any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards |
caiman lizard | crocodile-like lizard of South America having powerful jaws for crushing snails and mussels |
agamid agamid lizard | a lizard of the family Agamidae |
frilled lizard Chlamydosaurus kingi | large arboreal insectivorous Australian lizard with a ruff of skin around the neck |
dragon flying dragon flying lizard | any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body |
mountain devil spiny lizard Moloch horridus | desert lizard that feeds on ants |
anguid lizard | any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas, all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects |
alligator lizard | slim short-limbed lizard having a distinctive fold on each side that permits expansion, of western North America |
glass lizard glass snake joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
legless lizard | degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards |
venomous lizard | any of two or three large heavy-bodied lizards, only known venomous lizards |
beaded lizard Mexican beaded lizard Heloderma horridum | lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales, of western Mexico |
lacertid lizard lacertid | Old World terrestrial lizard |
sand lizard Lacerta agilis | a common and widely distributed lizard of Europe and central Asia |
green lizard Lacerta viridis | a common Eurasian lizard about a foot long |
monitor monitor lizard varan | any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia, fabled to warn of crocodiles |
Komodo dragon Komodo lizard dragon lizard giant lizard Varanus komodoensis | the largest lizard in the world ( feet), found on Indonesian islands |
apatosaur apatosaurus brontosaur brontosaurus thunder lizard Apatosaurus excelsus | huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic |
lounge lizard lizard | a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him |
lizard orchid Himantoglossum hircinum | an orchid of the genus Himantoglossum |
Saururaceae family Saururaceae lizard's-tail family | family of perennial aromatic herbs: genera Saururus, Anemopsis, Houttuynia |
lizard's-tail swamp lily water dragon Saururus cernuus | North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers |