Word Meanings - SNAKEFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The band fish. The lizard fish.

LIZARD
Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria. Note: Most lizards have an elongated body, with four legs, and a long tail; but there
LIZARD'S TAIL
A perennial plant of the genus Saururus , growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray.
WATER LIZARD
Any aquatic lizard of the genus Varanus, as the monitor of the Nile. See Monitor, n., 3.