saurian
belonging or pertaining to the Sauria, a group of reptiles originally including the lizards, crocodiles, and several extinct forms but now technically restricted to the lizards.
resembling a lizard.
a saurian animal, as a dinosaur or lizard.
Origin of saurian
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How to use saurian in a sentence
When within a few yards of the saurian, he threw a double charge of dynamite close up to it, and then turned to fly.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines | H. Wilfrid WalkerA river of some size enters, on the left hand, about six miles below the saurian encampment, which originates in a lake.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 | Henry Rowe SchoolcraftThe bullet darted into the nearer eye and ripped through what little brain the saurian possessed.
Up the Forked River | Edward Sylvester EllisBut the term saurian is no longer in favour, and has faded from science, and is interesting only in ancient history of progress.
Dragons of the Air | H. G. SeeleyMost modern naturalists who use the term saurian still make it an equivalent of lizard, or an animal of the lizard kind.
Dragons of the Air | H. G. Seeley
British Dictionary definitions for saurian
/ (ˈsɔːrɪən) /
of, relating to, or resembling a lizard
of, relating to, or belonging to the Sauria, a former suborder of reptiles (now called Lacertilia), which included the lizards
a former name for lizard
Origin of saurian
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Scientific definitions for saurian
[ sôr′ē-ən ]
A lizard or similar reptile.
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