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lizardling en · NOUN

Etymology

From lizard + -ling.

Meanings

1. A small, young, or immature lizard.
   • Of reptiles there was a broken skull of some lizard, long since dead, and the eggshell of a lizardling which had hatched and gone forth upon his mission into the jungle. 1916, The Atlantic monthly, volume 117, page 45:
   • [...] a little nest of dirty white rubber-shelled eggs, and recognized them for the treasure of Mrs. Sceloporus occidentalis, she left them there to complete their six-weeks period of incubation, and to turn into inch-long lizardlings. 1928, Nature magazine, volumes 11-12, page 47:
   • Lizardlings thus hatch out and wander off on their own without parental contact or the opportunities for learning that such contact provides. 1988, New York Zoological Society, Animal kingdom - Volume 91 - Page 10:

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