DIAPSIDS Synonyms

• leather made from alligator's hide

• either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts

• crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes

• large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters

• any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era

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

• a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him

• any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

• a long faint constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer

• a deceitful or treacherous person

• something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake

• a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes

• move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake

• form a snake-like pattern

• move along a winding path

• a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar

• any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming

• overturn accidentally

• hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation

• reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye