Lizardling

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From lizard + -ling.

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