The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Adders, slow worms and common lizards will be the focus of protection efforts during a major peatland restoration project near Dumfries.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
It wasn’t the greatest place, with lizards on the walls and ceiling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
They found Madagascar "hissing" cockroaches, a bulky insect named for its noisy defence mechanism, and dubia cockroaches, an invasive critter bred as a snack for pet lizards.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
People working with Perez would collect the reptiles including Mexican box turtles and Mexican beaded lizards, at from an airport in Ciudad Juárez, then move them by car over the border to El Paso.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
He’d left the lizards alone until now—he probably thought they were beneath his notice—but everyone in the school knew who Pelicarnassus was.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
