LIZARD Synonyms

• small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World

• small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color

• (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance

• ancient brass cannon

• small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America

• a faint constellation in the polar region of the Southern Hemisphere near Apus and Mensa

• a changeable or inconstant person

• lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue

• a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

• a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

• a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

• any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

• any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless

• a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River

• large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America

• an ironclad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac

• someone who supervises (an examination)

• someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

• display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor

• electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions

• a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble

• any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles

• keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance

• check, track, or observe by means of a receiver

• 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 firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited

• an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake

• 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

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