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Saurian

noun

Any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs.

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"Saurian" Quotes from Famous Books

... the dog, or, perhaps, off one of the sleeping natives. True stood bravely at bay, barking furiously, and yet refusing to retreat. Leaping from my hammock, I seized a log, and dashed it in the huge saurian's face. All the party were speedily on foot. Isoro and Domingos came rushing forward with their long poles to attack the monster; while John, seizing his gun, fired at its head: The ball, however, glanced off its scaly coat. ...

— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston

... altogether ill-matched, these two colossal protagonists of the Saurian and the Mammal. The advantage of bulk lay altogether with the Dinosaur, the three-horned King of all the Lizard kind. His armament, too, whether for offense or for defense, was distinctly the more formidable. Fully twenty feet in length, and perhaps eight feet high at the crest of the massively-rounded ...

— In the Morning of Time • Charles G. D. Roberts

Words linked to "Saurian" : Lacertilia, diapsid reptile, suborder Sauria, diapsid, lizard, suborder Lacertilia, lacertilian, Sauria