lizard

relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail

• gecko — any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless
• iguanid, iguanid lizard — lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males
• worm lizard — a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena; harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail
• night lizard — small secretive nocturnal lizard of southwestern North America and Cuba; bear live young
• skink, scincid, scincid lizard — alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide
• teiid lizard, teiid — tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail
• agamid, agamid lizard — a lizard of the family Agamidae
• anguid lizard — any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas; all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects
• legless lizard — degenerate wormlike burrowing lizard of California closely related to alligator lizards
• Lanthanotus borneensis — a stout-bodied pleurodont lizard of Borneo
• venomous lizard — any of two or three large heavy-bodied lizards; only known venomous lizards
• lacertid lizard, lacertid — Old World terrestrial lizard
• chameleon, chamaeleon — lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue
• monitor, monitor lizard, varan — any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles

• saurian — any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs