flying lizard

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Origin of flying lizard

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby flying lizard

flying jenny, flying jib, flying jib boom, flying kite, flying lemur, flying lizard, flying machine, flying mare, flying moor, flying mouse, flying officer

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How to use flying lizard in a sentence

Once a flying lizard swooped over their boat but it changed its mind and went on to attack something else.
The Lost Warship|Robert Moore Williams
The extinct echindul had been a sort of flying lizard that had nested in the mysterious, almost inaccessible Red Lava Range.
The Wealth of Echindul|Noel Miller Loomis
It is a most extraordinary animal, and is a species of flying lizard, although differing from the lizard in many respects.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder|James De Mille
I knocked the wrench down, and the flying lizard got away, after all.
The Motor Boys Over the Rockies|Clarence Young

You dont by any possible chance mean a flying lizard, do you?
The Motor Boys Over the Rockies|Clarence Young

British Dictionary definitions for flying lizard

flying lizard

flying dragon

noun

any lizard of the genus Draco, of S and SE Asia, having an extensible fold of skin on each side of the body, used to make gliding leaps: family Agamidae (agamas)

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