crocodilian

From crocodile + -ian; compare translingual Crocodilia.

1989, Walter P. Coombs, Jr., Modern analogs for dinosaur nesting and parental behavior, James Orville Farlow (editor), Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs, Issue 238, page 47,
Mound-nesting crocodilians and megapodes appear to be indifferent to nest-site parameters, but susceptibility of crocodilian mound nests to predation or drowning may be altered by site selection.

Superb predators, the crocodilians are reptiles, and the only survivors of the archosaurs that included dinosaurs.

2001, F. Lynne Bachleda, Dangerous Wildlife in the Southeast, page 33:

Crocodilians are essentially lizard-like in basic shape and are adapted to a largely aquatic life. ln water, they hunt and eat their prey and advertise their size and location by bellowing.

2001, Patricia Pope Bartlett, Billy Griswold, Richard D. Bartlett, Reptiles, Amphibians, and Invertebrates: An Identification and Care Guide, page 191:

Any reptile of the order Crocodilia; a crocodile, alligator, caiman or gavial.


water monitor

An Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator), a large lizard native to Southeast Asia.

tiníléítsoh naʼałkǫ́ʼígíí

large lizard native to Southeast Asia, Varanus slavator


kabaragoya

Borrowed from Sinhalese කබරගොයා (kabaragoyā).

bor+

The Chairman said that Kegalla raised the question of protecting the Kabaragoya from destruction and the Department of Agriculture took up the matter[…].

1923, The Tropical Agriculturalist, volume 60, page 287:

[…]I remember after-school cricket matches on Layard's Road and wickets knocked over by kabaragoyas;[…].

2007, Amitav Ghosh, Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times, page 37:

Cobras had nothing to fear from men; their most deadly enemy was the kabaragoya, of which two called our campus home.

2009, H. Ronken Lynton, Veiled Destinies, page 52:

2012, Arcadius (Shelton A. Gunaratne), Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate, page 150,
A kabaragoya, scenting food, tried to drive away the crows, slashing at them with its tail.

The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.


yellowbelly slider

en-noun

yellowbelly slider (plural yellowbelly sliders)

Trachemys scripta scripta, a kind of turtle


lace monitor

A monitor lizard of species Varanus varius, native to Australia.


rubber boa

A snake of species Charina bottae, found in the western United States.


saurischian

en-adj

saurischian (comparative more saurischian, superlative most saurischian)

more saurischian (comparative)
most saurischian (superlative)

Characteristic of the dinosaurs of the order Saurischia.


pliosaur

Hunting many of the other marine reptiles are the pliosaurs, short-necked and large-headed versions of plesiosaurs who appear to have had a general diet of anything that moved.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 138:

Any of several plesiosaurs of the family Pliosauridae, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.


plesiosaur

Backformation of translingual Plesiosaurus, named by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche in 1824 because plesiosaurs were more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata a few years earlier. Surface derivation, plesio- + -saur.

"Look!" cried Olson. "Would you look at the giraffe comin' up out o' the bottom of the say?" We looked in the direction he pointed and saw a long, glossy neck surmounted by a small head rising above the surface of the river. Presently the back of the creature was exposed, brown and glossy as the water dripped from it. It turned its eyes upon us, opened its lizard-like mouth, emitted a shrill hiss and came for us. The thing must have been sixteen or eighteen feet in length and closely resembled pictures I had seen of restored plesiosaurs of the lower Jurassic.

1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

It is the first time in Australia the head and body of an elasmosaur, a type of plesiosaur, has been found in one piece.

2022 December 6, Rachael Merritt, “Australia's first complete plesiosaur fossil discovered in outback Queensland”, in ABC News:

Any of several extinct marine reptiles, of the order †Plesiosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Henry De la Beche
William Conybeare
plesiosaur


parasaurolophus

From the New Latin genus Parasaurolophus; see there for more.

Parasaurolophus, a herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of what is now North America that walked both as a biped and a quadruped.

Field Museum of Natural History
parasaurolophus


ornithopod

A type of bipedal, herbivorous, bird-hipped dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, found on all seven continents.


lacertid

From the name of the first discovered example, BL Lacertae.

In the same diagram a compact galaxy, 3C 371, and a Seyfert, 3C 120, lie very close to the Lacertids.

1975 July 10, “Quasars and Lacertids show a family likeness”, in New Scientist, page 61:

These reliably variable objects included three ROCOSs (OE 400, OI 090.4, and PI034-293) and two lacertids (AO 0235+164 and OJ 287).

1990, Bulletin of the Special Astrophysical Observatory-North Caucasus, volumes 24-26, page 67:

We have identified six radio sources in the Zelenchuk (RATAN-600) catalog with two quasars, two lacertids, and two pairs of galaxies.

1993, Astronomy Reports, volume 37, American Institute of Physics, page 466:

active galactic nucleus
active galactic nucleus

(astronomy) A type of blazar (highly variable active galactic nucleus) that lacks spectral emission lines characteristic of quasars.


maniraptoran

Unlike lizards and many other dinosaur groups, maniraptorans (including birds) do not shed their skin in large sections, as this would interfere with the feathers.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 125:

(biology) Any of a group of advanced theropods, of the clade Maniraptora, thought to be ancestors of both dinosaurs and birds.


elapid

(zoology) Any of many species of snakes of the family Elapidae, including the cobras, mambas, and coral snakes


boid

Any member of the family Boidae of non-venomous snakes.


abelisaur

Juvenile T. rexes were light and agile before they leveled up into the adults we’re more familiar with. […] Other megatheropods, including abelisaurs and tarbosaurs, also grew from turkey-like hatchlings to bus-sized behemoths over the course of their lives.

2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times:

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the superfamily Abelisauroidea.


wood turtle

A turtle of the species Glyptemys insculpta, a rather large turtle usually found in wooded areas near water.


dromaeosaur

In communities with megatheropods, Ms. Schroeder and colleagues found what they call a “carnivore gap”: a large swath of medium-size niches that were empty. For instance, the Hell Creek Formation, a well-studied fossil area that stretches from modern day Utah to Alberta, was once home to 630-pound grown-up dromaeosaurs, 7-ton adult T. rexes — and no mature meat-eaters in between.

Any bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.


hadrosaur

Back-formation from Hadrosauridae, from the type genus Hadrosaurus, which in turn was derived from Ancient Greek ἁδρός (hadrós, “strong”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

Bipedal hadrosaurs, great hulking lambeosaurs, certain rhino-like ceratopsians and relatives of the velociraptors - all large and probably able swimmers - had the greatest success.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 31:

(paleontology) Any ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.


lambeosaurid

From Lambeosauridae, in turn from the type genus Lambeosaurus, after Lawrence Lambe.

(paleontology, archaic) A member of the putative family of crested hadrosaurs, the Lambeosauridae.


lambeosaur

From translingual Lambeosaurus, from Lambe + -saurus, named for Lawrence Lambe.

(paleontology) A crested duck-billed dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.


cantil

Any of various snakes of the species Agkistrodon bilineatus.


allosauroid

From the clade name Allosauroidea, first proposed by Currie & Zhao in 1993.

(paleontology) Any member of a superfamily clade of dinosaurs including the sinoraptorids, carcharodontosaurids and allosaurids.


pancake tortoise

en-noun

pancake tortoise (plural pancake tortoises)

A flat-shelled species of tortoise, taxonomic name Malacochersus tornieri.


oviraptorid

(zoology) A member of the Oviraptoridae, birdlike maniraptoran dinosaurs.


lepidosaur

(zoology) A member of the Lepidosauria, reptiles with overlapping scales


archosaur

From translingual Archosauria (“taxonomic division of extinct reptiles”), from Ancient Greek ἄρχων (árkhōn, “leader”) + σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”).

bor

The predominance of archosaurs over other reptiles might be a consequence of their more advanced mode of locomotion compared with their relatives.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 77:

A reptile of the taxon Archosauria, which includes modern crocodilians and birds, as well as the extinct pterosaurs, non-avian dinosaurs and other taxa.


anapsid

From scientific Latin Anapsida, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch”).

(zoology) A member of this group of reptiles, including the turtles, tortoises and terrapins.

anapsido

Reptile with a skull that has no openings near the temples


dinosaurian

/ˌdʌɪnə(ʊ)ˈsɔːɹɪən/

From dinosaur + -ian, or Dinosauria + -an.

They were flapping their ears, moving their great stamp-like feet up and down, grinding their teeth, slobbering with their mouths, making borborygmic gurgles and rumbles in their dinosaurian-like bodies, or throwing up their trunks or their tails.

1922 April, Cuthbert Christy, “The African Elephant, Part II”, in Journal of the African Society, volume XXI, number LXXXIII, Macmillan and co., page 194:


boine

en-adj

boine (comparative more boine, superlative most boine)

more boine (comparative)
most boine (superlative)


caenophidian

(zoology) Any snake of the superfamily once known as Caenophidia (now known as Colubroidea)


crocodyliform

(zoology) Any reptile of the order Crocodylia; the crocodiles, alligators etc.


dyrosaurid

(zoology) Any of several extinct crocodyliforms of the family †Dyrosauridae


snakeskin

Sort of dago fellow; leads the orchestra down at the Winter Gardens ... You know the sort, all lah-di-dah and snakeskin shoes.

1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 10, in Have His Carcase:


madtsoiid

(zoology) Any of several extinct snakes of the family Madtsoiidae


crocodylomorph

(zoology) Any crocodilian or extinct relative in the superorder Crocodylomorpha.


mesoeucrocodylian

The new species possesses a combination of primitive and derived features that helps to fill wide morphological and temporal gaps in early mesoeucrocodylian history.

2002 September 14, Ronald S. Tykoski, “Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 22, number 3, page 593:

For mesoeucrocodylians known on the basis of incomplete skeletal remains, body size is generally estimated from skull length-total length relationships in extant crocodylians (Webb and Messel, 1978; Woodward el al., 1995; Sereno et al., 2001).

2005 June 14, James O. Farlow, “Femoral dimenstions and body size of Alligator mississippiensis: Estimating the size of extinct mesoeucrocodylians”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, number 2, page 354:

The mesoeucrocodylians were known previously as the Mesosuchia.

2015, Gordon Grigg, Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians, page 43:

(zoology) Any of a group of mostly extinct crocodylomorphs of the clade Mesoeucrocodylia.


moloch

From Hebrew מולך (molokh, “Ammonite god, worshipped by Canaanites and Phoenicians, who demanded child-sacrifice. Mentioned in Leviticus and Deuteronomy”).

bor

Any of species Moloch horridus of Australian lizards, sole species of the genus Moloch.


oviraptoran

Any of several birdlike dinosaurs of the family †Oviraptoridae.


pythonid

(zoology) Any of the family Pythonidae of non-venomous snakes, distinguished from the boids by teeth on the premaxilla.


diapsid

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Diapsida</i>

(zoology) Any of very many reptiles, of the subclass Diapsida, that have a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye


black mamba

Dendroaspis polylepis
Dendroaspis polylepis#Translingual

A large venomous snake found in Africa, taxonomic name Dendroaspis polylepis. Despite the name, this species of snake is not black; its colour ranges widely from olive-brown, khaki or grey, sometimes to darker hues, especially when old. The inside of the mouth is black, but in spite of a recent urban legend there is no indication that that has anything to do with the name "black mamba", which is a much older usage than any such suggestion.


pleurodire

(zoology) Any of a group of side-necked turtles of the suborder Pleurodira


podocnemidid

(zoology) Any of a group of side-necked turtles of the family Podocnemididae


king cobra

Ophiophagus hannah
Ophiophagus hannah#Translingual

A large venomous snake found in East Asia (Ophiophagus hannah), the longest venomous snake in the world.


maiasaur

Any of the species of herbivorous duck-billed dinosaurs in the genus Maiasaura.


stegosaurus

en-noun

stegosaurus (plural stegosauruses or stegosauri)

stegosauruses (plural)
stegosauri (plural)

From the genus name Stegosaurus. From Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

"You will observe that both the pterodactyl and the stegosaurus are Jurassic, and therefore of a great age in the order of life."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

So you tell your friends about it, including the people who have no interest in birding and wouldn't know a Le Conte's sparrow from a stegosaurus.

1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader:

A stegosaur, a member of the suborder Stegosauria, of the order Ornithischia of the middle Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.

A member of the genus Stegosaurus within this suborder.


rhynchocephalian

(zoology) Any of a group of reptiles of the order Rhynchocephalia; a tuatara.


mamenchisaur

Any of the species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs in the genus Mamenchisaurus.


torosaurus

Any member of the genus †Torosaurus of herbivorous dinosaurs.


jararaca

Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.

The pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, for example, found that the venom of the jararaca snake could help control high blood pressure and used it to create the drug Captopril.

2008 May 18, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?”, in New York Times:

A venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.


plateosaurus

plateosaurus (plural plateosauruses or plateosauri)

plateosauruses (plural)
plateosauri (plural)

Triassic Period: cynognathus (foreground; South Africa), podekosaurus (left; Northern America) and plateosauri (background; Western Europe)

1958, Gustav Fochler-Hauke, translated by W. H. Johnston, Our World and Its Beginnings, London: Odhams Press Limited, facing page 113:

What we know of the history of the dinosaurs begins in the Triassic. The first skeletal remains were found in deposits of the uppermost Middle Triassic but trackways of dinosaurs have been discovered in strata five to six million years older. The largest dinosaurs of that time were the plateosauri which attained more than six metres in length.

1985, Rudolf Daber, Jochen Helms, translated by C.S.V. Salt, Fossils: The Oldest Treasures That Ever Lived, Neptune City, N.J.: T.F.H. Publications, Inc., Ltd., →ISBN, page 161, column 3:

A month before, a mass grave of dinosaur bones was unearthed in Frick. An amateur paleontologist found them. He discovered over one hundred entirely intact skeletons. Fossils of plateosauri two hundred million years old.

2015, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 87:

Any herbivorous dinosaur of the family Plateosauridae.


blue-tongued skink

blue-tongued skink (plural blue-tongued skinks)

Any of several species of Australian skinks in the genus Tiliqua.


troodontid

From translingual Troodontidae, equivalent to translingual Troodon + -id.

So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.

2021 September 21, Karen Hopkin, “Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic”, in Scientific American:

Any member of the family †Troodontidae of small, bird-like theropod dinosaurs with large brains, large eyes, and a retractable claw on the second toe of each hind foot, similar to a farmer's sickle, used for slashing at prey.


avialan

Any animal belonging to the clade Avialae, including all birds and a family of dinosaurian relatives


coelurosaur

Any of several small theropod dinosaurs of the clade Coelurosauria


heterodontosaurid

Any of a group of small dinosaurs, of the family Heterodontosauridae, that had characteristic teeth


mapepire

(Trinidad and Tobago) The venomous snake Lachesis muta.


ornithischian

Any of a group of dinosaurs, of the order Ornithischia, that have hips characteristic of birds.


rhamphorhynchoid

Any of several pterosaurs of the suborder Rhamphorhynchoidea.


therizinosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Therizinosauroidea


tyrannosauroid

Two skeletons of the oldest known tyrannosauroid have been discovered in what used to be wetland in the Gobi desert of western China.

2006 Feb, NewScientist, page 19, column 1:

The discovery of simple, shaftless feathers on Dilong paradoxus, a 2-metre-long basal tyrannosauroid from the early Cretaceous of China, led to the suggestion that the tyrannosauroids as a group were feathered.

2017 June 7, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea.


naja

From Sanskrit नाग (nāga), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”).

der

A member of the Naja genus of venomous snakes; cobras


mosasaur

From scientific Latin Mosasaurus (genus name).

What I find deeply disturbing, however, is that Mr. Ross could believe that the earth was created 10,000 years ago, but nevertheless write in his dissertation that mosasaurs, or marine reptiles, existed more than 65 million years ago.

2007 February 14, “The Case of the Creationist Geologist (5 Letters)”, in New York Times:

Mosasaurs could reach lengths of up to 17m and lived mainly in offshore waters of the Late Cretaceous.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 70:

A large extinct marine reptile in the family †Mosasauridae, dominant marine predator of the Cretaceous. Mosasaurs are considred to be in squmata, the same group that includes lizards and snakes.

mosasauro

extinct marine reptile in family Mosasauridae


regal horned lizard

en-noun

regal horned lizard (plural regal horned lizards)

Phrynosoma solare, a horned lizard, with a wide toad-shaped body about seven inches long, noted for the ten horns that form a crown-like structure on its head.


horned lizard

Any of some 14 species of lizard in the genus Phrynosoma, generally with wide toad-shaped bodies less than a foot long, noted for the horny structures on their heads.


mastigure

From translingual Mastigurus (“genus Uromastyx”), from Ancient Greek μάστιξ (mástix, “a scourge, a whip”) + οὐρά (ourá, “a tail”). Compare Uromastyx.

uder

Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.


parrot snake

Leptophis ahaetulla
Leptophis ahaetulla#Translingual

Leptophis ahaetulla, a snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago.


pit viper

Any of various venomous snakes, of the subfamily Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or fossa on either side of the head that enables them to detect prey by infrared.


dugite

A small dugite crawled across the lawn from the golf links.

1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 150:

Dugites and bobtails rustled out there, and in the evenings, bronzed by the sun as it dunked into the sea, whole mobs of kangaroos lined the ridge […].

1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 19:

Pseudonaja affinis, a highly venomous snake of southwest Australia.


ophio-

From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”).


pteranodon

/təˈɹænədɒn/

/təˈɹænədɑn/

From Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + ἀνόδων (anódōn, “toothless”). By surface analysis, ptero- + an- + -odon.

surf

Expect to see species including the apatosaurus, the pteranodon and the tenontosaurus moving and vocalizing at this exhibition, as well as their present-day descendants in the zoos new 13,500-square-foot reptile wing.

2007 November 30, Laurel Graeber, “Spare Times: For Children”, in New York Times:

A member of Pteranodon, a genus of large pterosaurs, the males of which had a bony crest on the back of the head.


phytosaur

Any member of the families Phytosauridae or Parasuchidae, a group of large semi-aquatic predatory archosaurs, resembling modern crocodiles, that flourished during the Late Triassic period.


azhdarchid

From scientific Latin Azhdarchidae (family name), ultimately from Persian اژدر (“mythological serpent”).

There are few creatures that embody the strangeness of the extinct quite like azhdarchids.

2017 February 8, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

Azhdarchid pterosaurs, the largest-ever living flyers, bigger and lighter than Orville and Wilbur Wright's early aeroplanes, glided overhead.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 98:

Any member of the Azhdarchidae, a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the late Cretaceous including some of the largest known flying animals of all time.


beardy

The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills.

1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 242:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded reedling.

But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off[…].

It is impossible to determine the sex of beardies as babies or juveniles, so if you are thinking of breeding them, you may have to buy four or five and raise them in individual enclosures.

2007, Steve Grenard, Bearded Dragon, page 52:

The bearded dragon will reach its adult length by one year. Baby beardies quickly grow into long, strong lizards!

2008, Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon, page 20:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded dragon.

Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.

1996, Andrew De Prisco, James Burris Johnson, Choosing a Dog for Life, page 73:

Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time.

2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 754:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded collie.

Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.

1864, John Younger, River Angling for Salmon and Trout : With a Memoir and List of the Tweed Salmon Casts, page 180:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
Any of several kinds of fish; a loach.


megalosaur

As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

A carnivorous dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.


hoop snake

A mythical creature of the United States and Australia, a snake that grasps its tail in its jaws and thereby rolls after its prey like a wheel.

Snakes of genus Farancia, chiefly of the southeastern U.S.:

Farancia abacura (horn snake, mud snake)


death adder

Sometimes suggested to derive from deaf adder, a colonial-era name for the snakes which referenced their tendency to remain in place (to ambush prey) rather than flee upon hearing human activity, but probably a simple reference to their venomousness.

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

A copperhead, a venomous pit viper species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in North America.


tegu

From teguexin, from Nahuatl tecoixin (“lizard”).

Any of the South American lizards of the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae.

especially any of genus Tupinambis, which is sometimes kept as a pet.


common death adder

en-noun

common death adder (plural common death adders)

A death adder of species Acanthophis antarcticus, of Australia, known for its venomousness and speed.


varanoid

(zoology) Any member of the superfamily Varanoidea of lizards, including the well-known Australian family Varanidae (the goannas).


mosasaurid

/ˌməʊzəˈsɔːɹɪd/

Any member of the Mosasauroidea, an extinct superfamily of Late Cretaceous lizards including the mosasaurs and aigialosaurs.


ceratosaur

(zoology) Any of many dinosaurs of the infraorder Ceratosauria.


dinomania

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At this point, we may attempt to define dinomania as the impulse to surround oneself with all forms of dinosaur iconology and to hoard information about their appearance, size, and way of life.

2002, José Luis Sanz, Starring T. rex!: dinosaur mythology and popular culture:

Dinomania didn't start with Jurassic Park - it has been with us since dinosaurs were discovered.

2003, Henry Gee, Luis V Rey, A field guide to dinosaurs:

In 1898, the yellow press snatched up the potential sensation, and invented dinomania. "MOST COLOSSAL ANIMAL EVER ON EARTH JUST FOUND OUT WEST," William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal blared...

2005, David Rains Wallace, Beasts of Eden:


giant tortoise

Any member or species of the genus Geochelone, land tortoises reaching 1.3 meters in length and with average life spans exceeding 100 years.


archosauromorph

Any lizard of the extinct infraclass †Archosauromorpha.

arcossauromorfo

any lizard of the extinct infraclass †Archosauromorpha


lepidosauromorph

Any reptile of the infraclass Lepidosauromorpha.


mosasauroid

Any extinct aquatic reptile of the superfamily Mosasauroidea, variously interpreted as related to or belonging to the lizards or the snakes.


shastasaurid

(zoology) Any extinct ichthyosaur in the family Shastasauridae.


sauropterygian

The sauropterygians had streamlined bodies and their limbs were more or less modified to function as paddles or flippers.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 66:

A reptile of the extinct superorder Sauropterygia.


varanid

From scientific Latin Varanidae (family name).

Although fossils of giant varanids had been known since the mid-1800s, the discovery that giant lizards were still among us, albeit on a few isolated islands in far-away Southeast Asia, was met with fascination and excitement.

2017 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any lizard of the genus Varanus; a monitor lizard.


tetanuran

The oldest tetanuran, the crested allosauroid Cryolophosaurus, was discovered in Lower Jurassic rocks on Antarctica and is quite similar to allosauroids from Upper Jurassic rocks on several continents.

1999 June 25, Paul C. Sereno, “The Evolution of Dinosaurs”, in Science, volume 284, number 5423, →DOI, pages 2137–2147:

Any theropod of the clade Tetanurae, all theropods, including birds, that are more closely related to modern birds than to the genus †Ceratosaurus.


viperid

Originally only capitalized, from New Latin Viperidae (“taxonomic family”), as Vipera + -id.

der

(zoology) Any member of the family Viperidae; a viper.


anguimorph

Any lizard of the infraorder Anguimorpha.


turkle

I knew my father's nature so well, that I was certain his anger would hang on to him like a turkle does to a fisherman's toe [...].

1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 33:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(US, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of turtle.


pythoness

Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness


legless lizard

Any of the several groups of lizards of the family Pygopodidae which have lost limbs or reduced them to the point of uselessness.


fuck-you lizard

en-noun

fuck-you lizard (plural fuck-you lizards)

Named during the Vietnam War, as the lizard's cry could be heard as fuck you. The fuck sound is quite clear and short in duration, followed by a pause of about half a second and the elongated you. The same sound could also be heard as tokay (as in tokay gecko), as tokeh (as in tokeh-tokeh), or as tuctoo, all of which are other English names of the lizard.

The mating call of a tokay gecko (fuck-you gecko)

listen

“Relax, son,” he whispered, “it’s only a fuck-you lizard.”

1988, Russell E. McLogan, Boy Soldier: Coming of Age During World War II, Terrus Press, page 141

“Uccck-ouuu.” Small Deer said, imitating a Fuck-You Lizard to perfection.

2004, Mike Sutton, No Survivors, Author House, page 176:

At least it wasn’t a fuck-you lizard, I thought.

2009, Wayne Karlin, Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam, Nation Books, page 269:

(military slang, vulgar) The tokay gecko (Gekko gecko), native to Southeast Asia.


acrodont

Pleurodont lizards are such as have the teeth attached by their sides {148} to the inner surface of the jaw, in contradistinction to acrodont lizards, which have the bases of their teeth anchylosed to the summit of the margin of the jaw.

1871, St. George Mivart, On the Genesis of Species:

The known skeletal remains of Longisquama lack any other diagnostic archosaurian characters [the furcula mentioned by Jones et al. consists of paired clavicles, as Sharov originally noted], but they exhibit two features, acrodont teeth and an interclavicle ( 3 ), that are typical of lepidosaurs.

2001 March 9, Richard O. Prum with et al., “Longisquama Fossil and Feather Morphology”, in Science, volume 291, number 5510, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1899–1902:

Having teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge.

ránőtt fog

having teeth united to the top of the alveolar ridge


acrodont

One of a group of lizards having the teeth immovably united to the top of the alveolar ridge


sungazer

One who takes part in sungazing, staring at the Sun.


freshie

en-noun

freshie (countable and uncountable, plural freshies)

From fresh + -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.

You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.

1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:

(countable, colloquial, US, Philippines) A freshman.

(countable, colloquial, UK) A new immigrant (usually to the UK).

(countable, colloquial, Australia) A freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)


milk snake

Lampropeltis triangulum
Lampropeltis triangulum#Translingual

Any of various snakes, Lampropeltis triangulum, with smooth and shiny scales and typically a pattern of colours that runs red-black-yellow or white-black-red.


colubriform

From Latin coluber and translingual Coluber + -iform.

Characteristic of snakes of the family Colubridae; colubrid


galliwasp

Any of the lizards in the genus Celestus.


herpet-

From the Ancient Greek ἑρπετ- (herpet-), the stem of ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “serpent, creeping animal, reptile”), from ἕρπω (hérpō, “I creep”); compare herpet-².


leptoceratopsid

Any dinosaur of the family Leptoceratopsidae


bagaceratopsid

Any dinosaur of the genus †Bagaceratops.


sea dragon

Any of certain fish consider to resemble dragons:

weedy sea dragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)

(UK, dated) An ichthyosaur (Age of Dinosaurs delphine marine reptile)


titanosaur

But 70 million years ago, near modern-day Asturias in northern Spain, there existed a lagoon, and as the land sank, the sea flooded it at high tide, and the bones of alligators, pterosaurs and dwarf titanosaurs (long-necked sauropod dinosaurs) were buried in the sediment.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 30:

Any member of the taxonomic groups Titanosauria or Titanosauroidea of diverse sauropod dinosaurs including some of the heaviest creatures ever to walk the earth.


seismosaurus

A dinosaur, of genus Seismosaurus, from the Jurassic period


allosaur

Any of several huge carnivorous dinosaurs, of the superfamily Allosauroidea, from the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods

alossauro

any dinosaur of the superfamily Allosauroidea


pachycephalosaur

From the New Latin genus name Pachycephalosaurus, equivalent to pachy- (“thick”) + cephalo- (“head”) + -saur (“lizard”).

af

One could almost call Triopticus a mimic were it not for the fact that it dates to 228-220 million years ago, meaning that it predates the pachycephalosaurs by over 100 million years.

2016 September 28, David Hone, “‘Three-eyed’ extinct reptile was a bone-headed dinosaur mimic 100 million years early”, in The Guardian:

Any of a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, of the genus Pachycephalosaurus from the late Cretaceous period.

paksupää

dinosaur of the genus Pachycephalosaurus


nothosaur

From scientific Latin Nothosaurus (genus name).

Nothosaurs were equipped with large, slightly curved teeth, which could provide a scissor-like bite like crocodiles.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 68:

(paleontology) An extinct marine reptile of the order Nothosauroidea, from the Triassic period.


iguanodon

From Spanish iguana (from Taíno iwana) + -odon.

August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Any of several large dinosaurs, of the genus Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.


neosauropod

Any sauropod, of the rank Neosauropoda, from the late Jurassic period


ornithomimosaur

Any of several theropod dinosaurs, of the clade Ornithomimosauria, that bore a superficial resemblance to modern ostriches


iguanid

(zoology) Any lizard of the family Iguanidae.


giganotosaurus

Borrowed from translingual Giganotosaurus, from giga- (“large”) + noto- (“southern”) + -saurus (“lizard”).

affix

Any of several very large, carnivorous dinosaurs of the subfamily Giganotosaurinae, from the Cretaceous period.


sandfish

en-noun

sandfish (plural sandfishes or sandfish)

belted sandfish

Serranus subligarius in family Serranidae

Other animals that notably burrow in sand:

sandfish skink (Scincus scincus), a land-dwelling lizard that swims in sand


whiptail

whiptail (countable and uncountable, plural whiptails)

Social status may be less important to red-necked wallabies, which, unlike whiptails, are "essentially solitary" (McEvoy 1970).

1977, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 4, number 4, page 409:

pretty-faced wallaby
pretty-faced wallaby

A pretty-faced wallaby (Macropus parryi).


rhynchosaur

From rhyncho- + -saur on the basis of their prominent beak-like structures.

Any of several diapsid reptiles, of order Rhynchosauria, from the Triassic period


hypsilophodont

Any of the genus †Hypsilophodon of small ornithopod herbivorous dinosaurs.


nodosaurid

(zoology) Any of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs of the family Nodosauridae.


ankylosaurid

(zoology) Any of the dinosaurs of the family Ankylosauridae.


kingsnake

Any of various colubrid snakes of the genus Lampropeltis.


morrocoy

The turtle is named after the Morrocoy National Park in Venezuela, where the turtle is indigenous and was spotted for the first time.

A red-footed tortoise, of the species Chelonoidis carbonaria, from the West Indies.


prosauropod

/pɹoʊˈsɔɹɵpɑd/

The longest trackway (23m) consists of 60cm long, four-toed footprints with one meter long strides in between and can probably be assigned to a prosauropod.

2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 87:

Any member of the Prosauropoda, a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs with a long neck and small head, forelimbs shorter than the hindlimbs, and a very large thumb claw for defense.


oviraptor

From scientific Latin Oviraptor (genus name), from Latin ōvi- (“ovi-”) + raptor (because it is believed to have fed on the eggs of other dinosaurs).

In all three fossil samples, the concentration of biliverdin is higher than that of protoporphyrin, suggesting that these oviraptor eggs originally were blue-green.

2017 October 11, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

Any of several bipedal dinosaurs, of the genus Oviraptor, from the late Cretaceous period.


testudine

It is convenient to divide the testudines into three groups, which will be referred to as the tortoises, the terrapins, and the turtles.

1969, Douglas J. Short, The I.A.T. manual of laboratory animal practice and techniques:

Any turtle, tortoise etc of the order Testudines.


compy

I have NT 4.0 setup^([sic]) on my compy and would also like to have win95.

1998, Eric Packwood, “Installing Win95 when having NT 4.0”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc (Usenet):


compy

As used in the novel (and subsequent motion picture) Jurassic Park; shortened from Compsognathus, with -y.

We picked up another compy.

(informal) A member of the genus Compsognathus or Procompsognathus.


stinkpot

Macronectes giganteus
Macronectes giganteus#Translingual

A southern giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus).


large-headed water snake

large-headed water snake (plural large-headed water snakes)

Natrix megalocephala
Natrix megalocephala#Translingual

Natrix megalocephala, a species of snake in the Colubridae family.


dice snake

The black spots on its belly may resemble those on dice.

Natrix tessellata
Natrix tessellata#Translingual

Natrix tessellata, a European non-venomous snake belonging to the family of Colubridae, subfamily Natricinae.


ladder snake

Any of the species Rhinechis scalaris of European snakes in the Colubridae family


savannah monitor

savannah monitor (plural savannah monitors)

Varanus exanthematicus
Varanus exanthematicus#Translingual

Varanus exanthematicus, a species of monitor lizard.


gwarda

At the time he was recovering from another snake bite, a gwarder, and not himself.

1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin, published 2009, page 152:

A very venomous Australian snake, Pseudonaja nuchalis.


lacertine

en-adj

lacertine (comparative more lacertine, superlative most lacertine)

more lacertine (comparative)
most lacertine (superlative)


lacertian

/ləˈsəːtɪən/


western diamondback rattlesnake

en-noun

western diamondback rattlesnake (plural western diamondback rattlesnakes)

western diamondback rattlesnakes (plural)

At the furthest point west, I recalled having seen during a previous visit a western diamondback rattlesnake a bit further to the west, so I continued to the spot hoping to see another.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:

Crotalus atrox
Crotalus atrox#Translingual

Crotalus atrox, a venomous pit viper species found in the United States and Mexico


hognose snake

A colubrid snake, from any of three genera, characterized by an upturned snout and notorious for playing dead when threatened.

Heterodon (United States and northern Mexico)


wall lizard

A small, thin species of lizard found in Europe and North America, Podarcis muralis.


snow skink

Any skink in the taxonomic genus Niveoscincus, endemic to south-eastern Australia (Tasmania and Victoria).


saltwater crocodile

saltwater crocodile (plural saltwater crocodiles)

A very large aquatic carnivorous crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), from Australia and South-East Asia


kronosaurus

A giant extinct plesiosaurian sea reptile with crocodile-like head in the genus Kronosaurus.


albertosaurus

A large carnivorous tyrannosaur dinosaur, of genus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.


spinosaurus

From New Latin Spinosaurus, from Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).

der

A large, extinct, carnivorous dinosaur of genus Spinosaurus, with a long snout like that of a crocodile and with a sail on its back. It is considered to be the largest theropod dinosaur.


tiger snake

Wikispecies tiger snake (canonical)
tiger snakes (plural)

We found boa constrictors or pythons, whip snakes, the handsome but deadly tiger snake, so called from the peculiar marks on its skin[.]

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 94:

Any of several large venomous Australian snakes of the genus Notechis.


Nile crocodile

A large fierce carnivorous semi-aquatic African crocodile of species (Crocodylus niloticus).


horned frog

But among all the harmless reptiles of Texas, decidedly the most singular is the horned frog; it resembles the common frog […]

1855, John Wright, William Wright, Recollections of Western Texas, published 1995, page 41:

The horned frog is a native of Texas and Lower California, where he is found inhabiting the sandy soil of the prairies and the pockets of the small boy. / The horned frog is really no frog at all, but a lizard traveling incognito.

1912, J. W. Reading, “Locomotive Engineers Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 47:

I have always had aspecial affinity for horned toads, probably because I went to Texas Christian University, whose mascot is the horned frog

2012, Lonn Taylor, Texas, My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy:

(US) Synonym of horned lizard; genus Phrynosoma, especially the Texas horned lizard.


black caiman

A large black carnivorous South American caiman (Melanosuchus niger).


green anaconda

A large green carnivorous anaconda, Eunectes murinus, with a very long body and black spots.


reticulated python

en-noun

reticulated python (plural reticulated pythons)

Malayapython reticulatus, a species of python found in Southeast Asia, that is the world's longest snake.


tenontosaur

Any of the genus †Tenontosaurus of ornithopod dinosaurs.


coachwhip

Masticophis flagellum, a colubrid snake of North America.


iguanian

Any of the suborder Iguania of iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and "New World lizards".


agamid

Bright male colors are exhibited primarily during sexual and aggressive displays in iguanids, agamids, chamaeleonids, gekkonids, lacertids, and teiids.

1992, William E. Dooper, Neil Greenberg, “Reptilian Coloration and Behavior”, in Carl Gans, David Crews, editors, Hormones, Brain, and Behavior, page 398:

Agamids and chamaeleonids are sister-groups, presumably with the chameleons diverging early from an agamid stock. Agamids and chameleons uniquely share an acrodont dentition on the dentary and posterior maxillary.

1993, George R. Zug, Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, page 439:

Whereas Chamaeleonidae and Iguanidae now appear to be monophyletic, Agamidae is not (Macey et al. 1997) because chameleons evolved from agamids, though they have traditionally been excluded (a problem easily resolved by recognizing a clade called Acrodonta, which includes both agamids and chameleons).

2006, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, page 144:

(zoology) Any of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons.


pachypleurosaur

A primitive sauropterygian reptile of the Triassic period, vaguely resembling aquatic lizards.


yacare

Portuguese jacaré, from Old Tupi îakaré.

The yacare is not found farther south than the 32nd degree of south latitude. In its habit completely aquatic; and is never found excepting in the water or on the bank.

1859, Cassell's popular natural history, page 24:


hypsilophodontid

Named after the Hypsilophus genus of iguana lizard

An informal grouping of small ornithopod dinosaurs, regarded as fast, herbivorous bipeds on the order of 1–2 meters long (3.3-6.6 feet).


duck-billed dinosaur

duck-billed dinosaur (plural duck-billed dinosaurs)

Derived from the similarity of the heads of certain members of the family to those of modern ducks.

The scientists' report, published in Biological Reviews, found that while, largely, the dinosaurs were faring well at the time of the asteroid impact, the big plant-eating types, including the horned triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs, had suffered a loss of biodiversity.

(informal) Any ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.


xantusiid

(zoology) Any of the family Xantusiidae of night lizards.


thread snake

Any of the fossorial snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae.


night lizard

These lizards were once (wrongly) thought to be nocturnal.

Any of the family Xantusiidae of very small, viviparous lizards.


pygopodid

/ˈpaɪɡəʊˌpɒdɪd/

(zoology) Any member of the family Pygopodidae, the legless lizards.


gekkonid

Non-gekkotans and non-gekkonid gekkotans were used as outgroups and/or in establishing calibrations for the timetree analysis ....

2013 January 8, Aaron M. Bauer et al., “A preliminary phylogeny of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with taxonomic implications”, in Zootaxa, volume 3599, number 4, page 306:

(zoology) Any member of the family Gekkonidae, the largest family of geckos.


dermochelyid

Loss of scutes (and corresponding loss of sucli^([sic]) on the underlying shell plates) is widely regarded as a derived condition that has occurred independently in trionychids, advanced carettochelyids (Carettochelyidae), and derived sea turtles such as dermochelyids and protostegids (e.g., Meylan 1988; Hirayama and Chitoku 1996).

2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles:

(zoology) Any of the family Dermochelyidae of marine turtles.


beadsnake

A small poisonous snake of North America, banded with yellow, red, and black: the eastern coral snake, Micrurus fulvius.


teguexin

From Nahuatl tecoixin (“lizard”); compare tegu.

A large South American lizard with yellowish spots; a gold tegu.


lizardskin

lizardskin (countable and uncountable, plural lizardskins)

He placed the dried lizardskin on the table.

She wore a lizardskin coat and lizardskin boots.

The skin of a lizard, or leather made from it.


ophiophagous

From ophio- (“snake”) + -phagous (“eating”).


hatteria

From obsolete translingual Hatteria, which was a genus proposed in 1842 and later rejected.

The skull of the hatteria is more like that of a crocodile than like that of any other reptile; but on the other hand its legs are like those of the lizard […]

1891, Julia McNair Wright, Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side, number 4, page 163:

A Red-breasted Water lizard, appropriately christened “Robin,” seemed more especially to excite its ire in the vain pursuit of which the hatteria would rush out from its lair with angry gruntings whenever that lizard chanced to trespass too closely […]

1902, Animal Life and the World of Nature:

This association favours the hatterias which feed on the numerous insects attracted by the birds' excrement.

1975, Pierre Paul Grassé, Larousse Encyclopedia of the Animal World, page 407:


ophiolatry

From ophio- + -latry, from Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”) and λατρεία (latreía, “worship”).

The serpent depicted on one of the food vessels is so close in its symbolism to this mythic being of Tusayan folklore that it is probable ophiolatry of a kindred sort was practiced in the ancient pueblo of Sikyatki where it was found.

1896, Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents:


roughtail

A small snake of the family Uropeltidae.


thunderworm

From thunder + worm, so called because it leaves its burrows after a thunderstorm.

A small burrowing snake-like lizard (Rhineura floridana) native to Florida.


ticpolonga

A very venomous viper (Daboia russelii), native to Sri Lanka and India.


hornsnake

A nonvenomous, semiaquatic snake, Farancia abacura, found in the southern United States. Its upperside is glossy black, and its underside is red and black.


ammodyte

From Latin ammodytes, from Ancient Greek "sand burrower, a kind of serpent".

Vipera ammodytes
Vipera ammodytes#Translingual

(obsolete) A species of viper (Vipera ammodytes) of southeastern Europe.


alvarezsaurid

Any small, long-legged running dinosaur of the family †Alvarezsauridae.


azhdarchoid

Any pterosaur of the superfamily Azhdarchoidea.


alvarezsauroid

Any small, long-legged running dinosaur of the superfamily Alvarezsauroidea


brachiosaurid

Any herbivorous dinosaur of the family Brachiosauridae.


calamosaur

Any small theropod dinosaur of the genus †Calamosaurus


ularburong

A large, nonvenomous, nocturnal tree-snake, Boiga dendrophila, from the East Indies


parseltongue

Coined as Parseltongue by J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998). J. K. Rowling stated that she based the term on an "old word for someone who has a problem with the mouth, like a hare lip".

Now I can't get this out of my head - them hissing and whispering at one another like they're speaking in parseltongue.

2005 December 1, Aisling Willow Grey, “Re: AMC -- Kendall (and Ryan too)”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc (Usenet), message-ID <0001HW.BFB4D67000210837F0284550@news.verizon.net>:

Slither around Santa Fe's Rattlesnake Museum while practicing your parseltongue.

2007 April 3, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go Roadtripping USA: The Complete Coast-to-Coast Guide to America, 2nd edition, Macmillan, page 496:

“Parseltongue, that's what I need,” I murmured out loud as I brushed my teeth. A language for communicating with snakes.

2009 September 22, Sara Paretsky, Hardball: A V.I. Warshawski Novel, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →OL:

A fictional language of snakes in the Harry Potter universe.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J. K. Rowling


bungarum

(dated) A krait (venomous snake of the genus Bungarus)


lancehead

Any of many South American venomous pitvipers of the genus Bothrops.


edder

winges like a bird she hase,
Fete as an edder, a mayden's face,
Her kinde I'll take

1816, J. H. Hansall, The Stranger in Chester:


hydrophid

From hydro- + Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “a small serpent”).

der

(zoology) Any sea snake of the subfamily Hydrophiinae, venomous, preying on fishes, with a flattened tail for swimming.


hemidactyl

(zoology) Any species of Old World geckos of the genus Hemidactylus; house gecko


enaliosaur

/ɪˈnæliəˌsɔɹ/

/ɪˈnælɪəˌsɔː/

(paleontology, obsolete) One of the Enaliosauria (now known as the ichthyosaurs or sauropterygians.


ichthyosaurian

(paleontology) Any of the Ichthyosauria; an ichthyosaur.


crotaloid

en-adj

crotaloid (comparative more crotaloid, superlative most crotaloid)

more crotaloid (comparative)
most crotaloid (superlative)

(zoology) Resembling the genus Crotalus of venomous snakes, including the rattlesnake.


procoelian

(obsolete, zoology) Any of the Procoelia, a former suborder of Crocodilia.


elodian

(zoology, obsolete) Any of a group of tortoises (Elodites obs.) including the terrapins, in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.


emyd

(zoology) Any freshwater tortoise of the family Emydidae.


teleosaur

(paleontology) Any of several species of marine crocodylomorphs belonging to Teleosauridae . They are similar to the modern-day gharial.


shieldtail

Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern Asia.


Joe Blake

‘[…]Snakes kill. Nobody fools around with Joe Blakes, girlie. Bloke who fools around with snakes is a flamin′ idiot.’

1998, Bryce Courtenay, Jessica, unnumbered page:

There was Bill, holding the biggest flamin′ snake I have ever seen.[…]And away he trundles, with his Joe Blake wrapped around himself.

2007, Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer, page 68:

“I really don′t think ...” Jim laughs, “I really don′t think the Russian knew the Joe Blake was in there when he passed you the pannikin at Kelly′s Bore. And then, when you drank from it —”

2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 7:


ornithoscelidan

/ˌɔː(ɹ)nɪθəˈsɛlɪdən/

comparing the pelvis and hind limb of the ornithoscelidan with that of the crocodile[…]

1893, Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and Hebrew tradition:

(zoology, now historical) Any of the Dinosauria, formerly known as Ornithoscelida.


enaliosaurian

enaliosaurian (comparative more enaliosaurian, superlative most enaliosaurian)

more enaliosaurian (comparative)
most enaliosaurian (superlative)

(paleontology) Relating to the Enaliosauria.


pygopod

(zoology) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack forelegs.


geckotian

The Geckotians, is composed of nocturnal lizards, so much resembling each other that they might be left in one genus.

1831, Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, page 140:

It proved to be nothing more that a lizard of the geckotian family, hideously ugly, but, in common with all of his kind, perfectly harmless.

1871, Arthur Morelet, Travels in Central America: Including Accounts of Some Regions Unexplored Since the Conquest, page 278:

Other saurians have folds of skin along the flanks; but in no other of them is this disposition so developed as in a curious geckotian, the Ptychozoon homacephalum of Java and other Sunda Islands.

1890, M. Maurice Maindron, “Dragons, fabled and real”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume 36:


carpet python

Morelia spilota
Wikispecies:Morelia spilota

A carpet snake (snake of the species Morelia spilota).


carpet snake

A harmless colubrid species of snake found in North America, a pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus).


abelisaurid

(paleontology) Any of the Abelisauridae, a family of ceratosaurian theropod dinosaurs.


ceratosaurian

(zoology) Of or relating to the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.


ceratosaurian

(zoology) Any of the dinosaur infraorder Ceratosauria.


scincoid

Latin scincus a kind of lizard, from Ancient Greek σκίγγος (skíngos), σκίγκος (skínkos), + -oid. Compare skink.


fer-de-lance

en-noun

fer-de-lance (plural fer-de-lances or fers-de-lance)

fer-de-lances (plural)
fers-de-lance (plural)

Borrowed from French fer de lance (“spearhead”).

Bothrops lanceolatus or other lancehead snakes of genus Bothrops.


surucucu

From Portuguese surucucu, from Old Tupi surukuku.


gopher tortoise

gopher tortoise (plural gopher tortoises)

Any of the species of the taxonomic genus Gopherus, which are burrowing tortoises of southern North America.


elasmosaurid

(zoology) Any of the family Elasmosauridae of long-necked plesiosaurs.


dabb lizard

Dabb from Arabic ضَبّ (ḍabb, “spiny-tailed lizard”).


turpin

From Old French [Term?], of Germanic origin: Tur (“god or divine”) + pin (“evergreen tree”).


stellion

From Latin stellio (“a newt with starlike spots on its back”), from stella (“star”).

der

A lizard (Laudakia stellio or Stellagama stellio). It is olive-green with small stellate spots, commonly found in the rocky areas around the Mediterranean.


dinomaniac

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dinomaniac.wav

(informal) One who has dinomania; a dinosaur enthusiast.


hadrosaurid

(zoology) Any of the family Hadrosauridae of duck-billed dinosaurs; a hadrosaur.


pleurodont

(zoology) Any reptile with teeth of this kind.


mersnake

From mer- + snake. Compare Middle English mereneddre (“sea-snake, lamprey”), from Old English merenǣddra, merenǣddre, merenǣdre (“lamprey, sea snake”, literally “sea-adder”).

cog

I asked casually while we walked past a few buildings with split columns painted with a pit of mersnakes eating raw flesh.

The first drowned in a cthulhoid's multitentacular clasp, the second was poisoned by multiple mersnake bites, and the third bled to death after his flesh was seared and scarified by a shoal of lumpreys.

2005, Brian M. Stableford, Donna Scott, Gabriel Strange, Curse of the Coral Bride:


pit adder

The two chief poisonous families of the rest of the globe, the vipers (Viperidae) and the pit-adders (Crotalida;), are entirely absent, their place being supplied by the Elapidae, [...]

1893, Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard, Australasia:

The venom of some snakes, Rogers says, contains a mixture of the above-mentioned venoms (among such snakes are the Australian colubrines and the American pit-adders).

1910, John Chalmers Da Costa, Modern surgery, general and operative:

There is the pit adder called Habu. This kind is the worst of the three. These snakes are three inches thick and six feet long, and resemble our diamond back rattlers at home.

Goblins which surrounded you, crowding closer and closer with their eye stalks vibrating, goblins which hissed like pit adders, were perhaps something he had not reckoned with.

1973, The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction:

They are neither lovable nor loving because they are innately poisonous or repulsive, like a pit adder or a skunk.

1974, Edgar Berman, The politician primeval: from the amoeba to the White House:

"[...] I hope the events of the day haven't so unbalanced your sense of values that you're going to turn on your pilot like a maddened pit adder at the mere suggestion of something pleasurable."

2002, Raymond Hamel, Luftgangsters: a novel:

Any of various venomous snakes of the family Crotalinae, found in Asia and the Americas, with a deep pit or groove on either side of the head which enables them to detect prey by infrared sensing; a pit viper.


shore pit viper

en-noun

shore pit viper (plural shore pit vipers)

A pit viper of the species Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus, of venomous snakes found in India and Southeast Asia.


shellpad

From earlier shell padde, equivalent to shell + pad (“toad”). Compare Saterland Frisian Skildpudde (“turtle, tortoise”), West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”), Middle Dutch schildpadde (Dutch schildpad, Afrikaans skilpad), Middle Low German schildpadde, Danish skildpadde. See also shield-toad.

cog

Of other he was called shilpad, that is to say, shelt-toad; for that he, being a short grundy, and of little stature, did ride commonly with a great broad hat, as a churl of the country.

1868, John Foxe, The Church Historians of England:

(now dialectal, rare, puristic) A turtle or tortoise.


shield-toad

From shield + toad. Compare shelled-toad, shell-toad, shellpad, shell-paddock. Compare also West Frisian skyldpod (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Dutch schildpad (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), German Schildkröte (“tortoise”, literally “shield-toad”), Swedish sköldpadda (“tortoise”), Icelandic sjaldbaka (“turtle”, literally “shield-back”).

But we already know that a shield-toad is a Frenchman, while the sun is Apollo's shield.

2010, Hugh Peter McGrath, Michael Comenetz, Valery's Graveyard:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:shield-toad.

(very rare, nonstandard, puristic) A turtle or tortoise.


deinonychosaur

Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria


supersaurus

Any of the large herbivorous diplodocid dinosaurs of the genus †Supersaurus.


sauropodomorph

Any of the long-necked dinosaurs in the Sauropodomorpha clade.


fanfoot

A gecko of the genus Ptyodactylus, having toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion.


worral

From Arabic وَرَل (waral, “monitor lizard”).

The Worral is a Sort of Lizard, which sometimes is thirty or forty Inches in Length, usually of a bright reddish Colour […]

1744, The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq.:

(obsolete) a monitor lizard of Egypt, including both the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) and desert monitor (Varanus griseus).


habu

An aircraft nicknamed for these snakes, the SR-71.


red-eared terrapin

en-noun

red-eared terrapin (plural red-eared terrapins)

Red-eared slider
red-eared slider#English


chelydrid

Some of the chelydrids are extinct.

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Chelydridae.


amphisbaenid

From scientific Latin Amphisbaenidae (family name).

Today, four species of amphisbaenids survive in Europe—two on the Iberian Peninsula and two in Turkey.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 51:

(zoology) Any member of the Amphisbaenidae; a worm lizard.


acrochordid

(herpetology) Any member of the family Acrochordidae.


adocid

(zoology) Any of the extinct turtles in the family Adocidae.


xenosaurid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Xenosauridae.


xenopeltid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Xenopeltidae.


yunnanosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the Yunnanosauridae.


younginid

(paleontology) Any member of the Younginidae.


zanclodontid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Zanclodontidae.


anchisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Anchisauridae.


anhanguerid

(zoology) Any pterosaur of the family Anhangueridae.


anomalepid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Anomalepidae.


allosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Allosauridae.


anomalepidid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Anomalepididae.


aniliid

(zoology) Any snake in the monotypic family Aniliidae, consisting of just Anilius scytale, the false coral snake.


anniellid

(zoology) Any member of the family Anniellidae.


anguid

(zoology) Any member of the family Anguidae.


atoposaurid

(zoology) Any of the extinct reptiles in the family Atoposauridae.


atractaspidid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Atractaspididae.


avimimid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Avimimidae.


baenid

(zoology) Any of the extinct turtles in the family Baenidae.


atlantosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Atlantosauridae, which is probably a synonym of the Diplodocidae.


baryonychid

(zoology) Any of the dinosaurs in the family Baryonychidae, a synonym for the Spinosauridae.


baurusuchid

(zoology) Any extinct crocodile-like reptile in the family Baurusuchidae.


bipedid

(zoology) Any member of the family Bipedidae.


bolyeriid

(zoology) Any snake of the family Bolyeriidae.


batagurid

It is perhaps instructive to note that tropical riverine batagurids, although more similar to other river-dwelling lineages in reproductive patterns than to other semi-aquatic and terrestrial batagurids, still tend to have lower fecundities and bigger eggs relative to their body sizes than do the other groups (e.g., riverine emydids, trionychids, and podocnemids) (Moll & Moll, 1990).

2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles, page 46:

(zoology) Any member of the Bataguridae (now Geoemydidae).


blikanasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the sauropodomorph family Blikanasauridae.


bolosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct parareptile of the family Bolosauridae.


bothremydid

But the European fossils are from a most unusual branch of the family known as bothremydids.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 29:

(paleontology) Any extinct turtle of the family Bothremydidae.


anurognathid

Some fed on fish and dead floating animals, while others, like the anurognathids, may have chased insects on the wing.

2014, Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva, Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico, page 130:

(zoology) Any pterosaur of the family Anurognathidae.


camarasaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Camarasauridae of dinosaurs of the late Jurassic.


camptosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the family Camptosauridae.


captorhinid

(zoology) Any primitive extinct reptile of the family Captorhinidae.


carcharodontosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Carcharodontosauridae of dinosaurs.


caenagnathid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Caenagnathidae.


ceratosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Ceratosauridae.


carettochelyid

Loss of scutes (and corresponding loss of sucli^([sic]) on the underlying shell plates) is widely regarded as a derived condition that has occurred independently in trionychids, advanced carettochelyids (Carettochelyidae), and derived sea turtles such as dermochelyids and protostegids (e.g., Meylan 1988; Hirayama and Chitoku 1996).

2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles:

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Carettochelyidae.


champsosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Champsosauridae.


chelonid

(zoology) Any member of the family Cheloniidae of sea turtles.


cheloniid

(zoology) Any sea turtle in the family Cheloniidae.


chelid

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Chelidae.


cetiosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Cetiosauridae.


cimoliasaurid

(zoology) Any plesiosaur in the former family Cimoliasauridae, a synonym of the Elasmosauridae.


cinosternoid

(zoology) Any member of the family Cinosternoidae, syn. Kinosternidae, of mud turtles.


coelurid

(zoology) Any member of the often revised family Coeluridae of dinosaurs.


coelurosauravid

(zoology) Any extinct diapsid reptile in the family Coelurosauravidae, a synonym of the Weigeltisauridae.


chamaeleonid

Chamaeleonids have carried the trend further; nearly all species have lost or greatly reduced vomeronasal and olfactory systems [Parsons, 1970; Gabe and Saint Girons, 1976] and rely, instead, on vision.

1993, S. Karger, Brain, Behavior and Evolution, volume 41, page 133:

Iguanids apparently were isolated in Africa by epicontinental seas and gave rise to chamaeleonids in the west and agamids in the east; the scincomorphs radiated in Laurussia, giving rise to the teiids in North America and lacertids in Europe.

2007, Thomas T. Veblen, Kenneth R. Young, Antony R. Orme, editors, The Physical Geography of South America, page 119:

Chamaeleonids’ ears have simplified over time, and they are not visible externally, being covered with skin and scales. Unlike other lizards, chamaeleonids possess neither an exterior aperture nor a tympanic membrane, but they share some skeletal and fluid structure similarities with snakes.

2009, François Le Berre, Richard D. Bartlett, The Chameleon Handbook, page 31:

(zoology) Any lizard of the family Chamaeleonidae; a chameleon.


compsognathid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Compsognathidae of dinosaurs.


cordylid

(zoology) Any member of the family Cordylidae.


crocodylid

(zoology) Any member of the family Crocodylidae; a crocodile.


crotaphytid

collared lizards
collared lizard#English

(zoology) Any member of the Crotaphytidae, or collared lizards.


crotalid

(zoology) A pit viper; any member of the subfamily Crotalinae (formerly the family Crotalidae) in family Viperidae.


coelophysid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Coelophysidae.


cryptoclidid

(zoology) Any plesiosaur in the family Cryptoclididae.


cryptocleidid

(zoology) Any plesiosaur in the family Cryptocleididae.


ctenosauriscid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Ctenosauriscidae.


ctenochasmatid

(zoology) Any pterosaur of the family Ctenochasmatidae


cyamodontid

(zoology) Any extinct placodont in the family Cyamodontidae.


deinocheirid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Deinocheiridae.


dermatemydid

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Dermatemydidae.


dermochelid

Dermochelys coriacea
Dermochelys coriacea#Translingual

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Dermochelidae, comprising only one species: the leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea.


corytophanid

/ˌkɒɹɪtəʊˈfænɪd/

/ˌkɑɹɪtoʊˈfænɪd/

From translingual Corytophanidae + -id. Corytophanidae is derived from Ancient Greek κόρῠθος (kórŭthos, “helmet”) + φᾰνερός (phănerós, “visible”) + -idae, referring to the lizard’s prominent helmet-like head crest.

der

The species differs from other corytophanids by having a triangular-shaped head casque projecting posteriorly past the head.

2004 October 30, Josiah H. Townsend, James R. McCranie, Larry David Wilson, “Corytophanes cristatus (Merrem): Smoothhead Helmeted Basilisk, Turipache Selvático”, in Andrew H. Price, editor, Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles, New York, N.Y.: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, →DOI, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-03-25, page 789.2, column 1:

(herpetology (saurology)) Any lizard in the family Corytophanidae; a casquehead or helmeted lizard.

Harvard University
Jonathan Losos
Museum of Comparative Zoology


dicraeosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Dicraeosauridae.


dibamid

(zoology) Any lizard of the family Dibamidae.


dimorphodontid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Dimorphodontidae.


dilophosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Dilophosauridae of dinosaurs.


diplodocid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Diplodocidae of large dinosaurs.


diplodactylid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Diplodactylidae.


drepanosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Drepanosauridae.


dryptosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Dryptosauridae.


dryosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Dryosauridae.


dsungaripterid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Dsungaripteridae.


elmisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Elmisauridae, now considered to be the caenagnathid subfamily Elmisaurinae.


emydid

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Emydidae.


erycid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Erycidae, now considered to be the boid subfamily Erycinae.


erythrosuchid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Erythrosuchidae.


eublepharid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Eublepharidae.


euhelopid

(zoology) Any member of the Euhelopidae, a synonym of the Euhelopodidae.


euhelopodid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Euhelopodidae.


euparkeriid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Euparkeriidae.


fabrosaurid

(zoology) Any ornithischian dinosaur in the family Fabrosauridae.


geoemydid

(zoology) Any member of the family Geoemydidae of turtles.


gerrhosaurid

/ˌdʒɛɹəˈsɔːɹɪd/

(zoology) Any member of the family Gerrhosauridae of plated lizards.


goniopholid

(zoology) Any extinct crocodylomorph in the family Goniopholidae.


goniopholidid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Goniopholididae, related to the crocodilians.


guaibasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Guaibasauridae.


gymnophthalmid

(zoology) Any lizard of the family Gymnophthalmidae.


gavialid

The gavialids, found in India, eat fish and have slender snouts.

1999, Patricia L. Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, The Oryx Guide to Natural History: The Earth and All Its Inhabitants, page 178:

Several genera of crocodiles, gavialids, and turtles evolved from Mesozoic stock.

2007, Thomas T. Veblen, Austin Kenneth R. Young, Antony R. Orme, The Physical Geography of South America, page 39:

The second was based on trees including Gavialis as the closest relative of Tomistoma, and two dates—the basal split within Crocodylia and the crocodylid–gavialid split—were estimated.

2009, Christopher A. Brochu, “Crocodylians (Crocodylia)”, in S. Blair Hedges, Sudhir Kumar, editors, The Timetree of Life, page 147:

(zoology) Any reptile of the family Gavialidae.


helodermatid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Helodermatidae


herrerasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaure in the family Herrerasauridae.


homalocephalid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Homalocephalidae, probably a synonym of the Pachycephalosauridae.


huayangosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Huayangosauridae,


hoplocercid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Hoplocercidae.


hylaeochampsid

(zoology) Any extinct eusuchian in the family Hylaeochampsidae.


hydrophiid

(zoology) Any sea snake in the family Hydrophiidae.


ichthyornithid

(zoology) Any avialan in the family Ichthyornithidae.


ichthyosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ichthyosauridae.


ilysiid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Ilysiidae, a synonym of the Aniliidae.


iguanodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Iguanodontidae of iguana-like dinosaurs.


hesperornithid

From translingual Hesperornithidae, from Hesperornis (“genus name”).

Finally, the Volgorod locality, Maastrichtian in age, has yielded two dinosaurs (an indeterminate hesperornithid and a basal theropod) and a few turtles.

2011, David B. Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu, Transylvanian Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 109:

The arrival of these hesperornithids in more southern waters during the early Campanian may indicate a cooler climate, closer shores, adaptations to changes in prey, or other factors.

2017, Michael J. Everhart, Oceans of Kansas, Indiana University Press, page 365:

2020, Alan Feduccia, Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs, Universal Publishers (BrownWalker Press), page 83,
9. Cretaceous foot-propelled divers, the hesperornithids, were grouped cladistically with loons (Eocene) and grebes (Miocene) as a clade, which would require re-evolution of teeth from an edentulous ancestor.

(paleontology) Any extinct avialan in the family Hesperornithidae.


istiodactylid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Istiodactylidae.


kinosternid

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Kinosternidae.


kuehneosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct lizardlike gliding reptile of the family Kuehneosauridae.


lagosuchid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Lagosuchidae.


lanthanotid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Lanthanotidae.


leptotyphlopid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.


liolaemid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Liolaemidae.


mamenchisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Mamenchisauridae.


massospondylid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Massospondylidae.


megalosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.


melanorosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the Melanorosauridae.


mesosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Mesosauridae; a mesosaur.


metriorhynchid

(zoology) Any crocodylomorph in the family Metriorhynchidae.


millerettid

(zoology) Any parareptile in the family Millerettidae.


mixosaurid

(zoology) Any ichthyosaur in the family Mixosauridae.


nemegtosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Nemegtosauridae.


meiolaniid

The meiolaniids were ancient turtles that evolved during the Eocene epoch, between 55 and 34 million years ago. Fossils of meiolaniid species come from Argentina, from Australia, and from several islands near Australia, including Tasmania and New Caledonia.

2007, Rebecca Stefoff, Turtles, page 52:

Turtle remains are particularly common at Lightning Ridge, comprising several distinct lineages including aquatic chelids and peculiar meiolaniid-like taxa—meiolaniids were spectacular horned turtles known from the Australian region and South America.

2012, Elizabeth T. Smith, Benjamin P. Kear, “Chapter 9: Spoochelys ormondea gen. et sp. nov., an archaic Meiolaniid-Like Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia”, in Donald B. Brinkman, Patricia A. Holroyd, James D. Gardner, editors, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, page 121:

Meiolaniids are a peculiar group of extinct turtles bearing cranial horns and frills, caudal rings, and tail clubs and restricted to South America (Eocene) and Australasia (Oligocene to Holocene).

2014, Marcelo de la Fuente, Juliana Sterli, Ignacio Maniel, Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles, page 134:

(zoology) Any of the extinct armoured land turtles of the family †Meiolaniidae.


neovenatorid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Neovenatoridae.


noasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Noasauridae.


nothosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile of the family Nothosauridae.


notosuchid

(zoology) Any extinct crocodylomorph in the family Notosuchidae.


nyctosaurid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Nyctosauridae.


nyctiphruretid

(zoology) Any parareptile in the family Nyctiphruretidae.


owenettid

(zoology) Any extinct parareptile in the family Owenettidae.


oplurid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Opluridae.


ophthalmosaurid

Clipping of translingual Ophthalmosauridae

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Ophthalmosauridae</i>

(zoology) Any ichthyosaur of the family Ophthalmosauridae


ornithocheirid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Ornithocheiridae.


ornithosuchid

(zoology) Any pseudosuchian in the family Ornithosuchidae.


ornithomimid

(zoology) Any of the family Ornithomimidae of dinosaurs.


pachyophiid

(zoology) Any reptile in the family Pachyophiidae, now referred to as the Simoliophiidae.


pachypleurosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct sauropterygian reptile of the family Pachypleurosauridae.


paliguanid

(zoology) Any lepidosauromorph in the family Paliguanidae.


ornitholestid

E. H. Colbert (pers. commun. to Harshbarger, 1957) suggested that Segisaurus looks very much like an ornitholestid; Ornitholestes is found in the Morrison Formation (Jurassic).

1975, Dudley W. Bolyard, Deep drilling frontiers of the central Rocky Mountains, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, →OCLC, page 114:

In proportions, and especially in their uncompressed central metatarsal, Avisaurus retains the conservative condition seen in such basal theopods as Coelophysis and Ceratosaurus (Fig. 2), and thus retains a basal condition compared to derived theropods and Archaeopteryx, which have proximally pinched central metatarsi (eg, compsognathids, ornitholestids, allosaurids, tyrannosaurids, elmisaurids, ornithomimids, dromaeosaurs and saurornithoidids; Paul, 1984).

1985, MK Brett-Surman, “A new family of bird-like dinosaurs linking Laurasia and Gondwanaland”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 5, number 2, page 133:

Aublysodonts and tyrannosaurs appear to have been the culmination of the ornitholestid-allosaur-tyrannosaur group.

1988, Gregory S. Paul, Predatory Dinosaurs of the World: A Complete Illustrated Guide, Simon & Schuster, →OCLC:

(zoology, very rare) Any member of the family †Ornitholestidae, now superseded by family †Compsognathidae.


parasuchid

(zoology) Any phytosaur in the family Parasuchidae.


peirosaurid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Peirosauridae.


pachycephalosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Pachycephalosauridae.


pelomedusid

(zoology) Any member of the family Pelomedusidae of freshwater turtles,


pholidosaurid

(zoology) Any crocodylomorph reptile in the family Pholidosauridae.


phrynosomatid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Phrynosomatidae.


pistosaurid

(zoology) Any sauropterygian reptile of the family Pistosauridae


placodontid

(zoology) Any placodont in the family Placodontidae.


plateosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Plateosauridae.


plesiosaurid

(zoology) Any plesiosaur in the family †Plesiosauridae of extinct marine reptiles.


platysternid

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Platysternidae; a big-headed turtle.


pliosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Pliosauridae of extinct aquatic reptiles.


podokesaurid

(zoology) Any theropod dinosaur of the family Podokesauridae, now considered to be a synonym of the superfamily Coelophysoidea.


phytosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Phytosauridae.


polacanthid

Derived from the informally named Polacanthidae family.

1993, J. I. Kirkland, “Polacanthid nodosaurs from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of the east-central Colorado Plateau”, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 13, title, page 44A:

There were no large lateral spikes that are present in nodosaurids and polacanthids hut it did share fused half-rings of neck armour with polacanthids.

2008, Adam Yates, Guide to Wild Dinosaurs, page 121:

For example, premaxillary teeth are present in the primitive polacanthid Gargoyleosaurus, the primitive nodosaurid Silvisaurus, and the primitive ankylosaurid Cedarpelta.

2012, Michael K. Brett-Surman, The Complete Dinosaur, page 510:

(zoology) Any ankylosaurian of the nodosaurid or ankylosaurid subfamily Polacanthinae.


pleurosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile of the family Pleurosauridae.


polychrotid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Polychrotidae or subfamily Polychrotinae.


polycotylid

(zoology) Any plesiosaur in the family Polycotylidae.


poposaurid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Poposauridae.


prestosuchid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Prestosuchidae.


procolophonid

(zoology) Any parareptile in the family †Procolophonidae


proceratosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Proceratosauridae.


protoceratopsid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Protoceratopsidae.


proterochampsid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Proterochampsidae.


pterodactylid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Pterodactylidae.


protosuchid

(zoology) Any crocodylomorph in the family Protosuchidae.


protorothyridid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Protorothyrididae.


pteranodontid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Pteranodontidae.


proterosuchid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Proterosuchidae of archosaurs


protostegid

Loss of scutes (and corresponding loss of sucli^([sic]) on the underlying shell plates) is widely regarded as a derived condition that has occurred independently in trionychids, advanced carettochelyids (Carettochelyidae), and derived sea turtles such as dermochelyids and protostegids (e.g., Meylan 1988; Hirayama and Chitoku 1996).

2012, Donald B. Brinkman, editor, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles:

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Protostegidae.


rauisuchid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Rauisuchidae.


rebbachisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Rebbachisauridae.


rhabdodontid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Rhabdodontidae.


rhamphorhynchid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Rhamphorhynchidae.


rhineurid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Rhineuridae.


rhinophid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Rhinophidae, a synonym of the Uropeltidae.


rhomalaeosaurid

(zoology) Any pliosauroid plesiosaur of the family Rhomaleosauridae


rhynchosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct rhynchosaur in the family Rhynchosauridae.


saltasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Saltasauridae.


romeriid

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Romeriida</i>

(zoology) Any extinct primitive reptile in the family Romeriidae.


saurornithoidid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Saurornithoididae, a synonym of the Troodontidae.


scaphognathid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Scaphognathidae, now considered to be the rhamphorhynchid subfamily Scaphognathinae.


scelidosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the family Scelidosauridae.


uropeltid

(zoology) Any member of the family Uropeltidae of shield-tail snakes.


scincid

(zoology) Any member of the family Scincidae, the skinks.


vulcanodontid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Vulcanodontidae.


sebecid

(zoology) Any crocodylomorph in the family Sebecidae.


segnosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Segnosauridae, a synonym for the Therizinosauridae.


shartegosuchid

(zoology) Any crocodylomorph in the family Shartegosuchidae.


shuvosaurid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Shuvosauridae.


silesaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Silesauridae.


shinisaurid

Although present in most closely related anguids, this character is absent in platynotans with the exception of all shinisaurids, the monstersaurid Primaderma and the mosasaurid Dolichosaurus.

2015 July 16, “Evidence of Egg Diversity in Squamate Evolution from Cretaceous Anguimorph Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Shinisauridae.


sinraptorid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Sinraptoridae.


sphargid

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Sphargidae, a synonym for the Dermochelyidae.


sphaerodactylid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae.


sphenodontid

(zoology) Any member of the order Sphenodontida or of the Sphenodontidae, the only family in the order with living species (tuataras in the genus Sphenodon).


sphenosuchid

(zoology) Any extinct crocodylomorph in the family Sphenosuchidae.


spinosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Spinosauridae.


staurikosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Staurikosauridae, a synonym of the Herrerasauridae.


stegosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Stegosauridae of dinosaurs.


stenopterygiid

(zoology) Any ichthyosaur in the family Stenopterygiidae.


stagonolepidid

Clipping of translingual Stagonolepididae

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Stagonolepididae</i>

(paleontology) Any archosaur in the family Stagonolepididae.


tapejarid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Tapejaridae.


tangasaurid

(zoology) Any diapsid in the family Tangasauridae.


temnodontosaurid

(zoology) Any ichthyosaur in the family Temnodontosauridae.


teratosaurid

(zoology) Any reptile in the family Teratosauridae, now included in the Rauisuchidae.


thalattosaurid

(zoology) Any thalattosaur in the family Thalattosauridae.


testudinid

By surface analysis, Latin testūdō + -in- + -id.

surf

(zoology) Any member of the Testudinidae, the tortoises.


thecodontosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Thecodontosauridae, but specifically of the genus Thecodontosaurus


therizinosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Therizinosauridae.


thescelosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Thescelosauridae, believed to be a synonym of the Parksosauridae or the Hypsilophodontidae .


titanosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Titanosauridae.


trachodontid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Trachodontidae, a synonym of the Hadrosauridae.


torvosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Torvosauridae (syn. of Megalosauridae).


toxochelyid

(zoology) Any extinct sea turtle in the genus Toxochelys.


trematochampsid

(zoology) Any crocodylomorph in the family Trematochampsidae.


trilophosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Trilophosauridae; a trilophosaur.


trogonophid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Trogonophidae.


tropidophiid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Tropidophiidae.


tropidurid

(zoology) lizard in the family Tropiduridae.


tupuxuarid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Tupuxuaridae.


typhlopid

(zoology) Any member of the Typhlopidae.


trionychid

It is perhaps instructive to note that tropical riverine batagurids, although more similar to other river-dwelling lineages in reproductive patterns than to other semi-aquatic and terrestrial batagurids, still tend to have lower fecundities and bigger eggs relative to their body sizes than do the other groups (e.g., riverine emydids, trionychids, and podocnemids) (Moll & Moll, 1990).

2004, Don Moll, The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles, page 46:

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Trionychidae.


tyrannosaurid

Similarly, the North American tyrannosaurid, Aublysodon, is reported from east Asia.

1965, David Jay Simmons, The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China, page 84:

Once again, Phil Currie says it definitely was a tyrannosaurid, most closely related, by braincase comparison, to Tarbosaurus. Chingkankousaurus fragilis was named by C. C. Yang in China in 1958.

1993, John R. Horner, The Complete T. Rex, page 134:

Most famous for the last and largest member of the clade, Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannosaurids at first glance seem very far removed from the ostrichlike ornithomimosaurs.

2003, Gregory Paul, The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, page 155:

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Tyrannosauridae.


marginocephalian

(zoology) Of or relating to the Marginocephalia, a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs.


marginocephalian

Thus, they were able to corroborate previous hypotheses of overrepresentation of nodosaurid ankylosaurs and hadrosaurid ornithopods in marine sediments, whilst they also found that marginocephalians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, sauropods, and supposedly herbivorous theropods were positively associated with terrestrial paleoenvironments.

2016 February 2, “The “χ” of the Matter: Testing the Relationship between Paleoenvironments and Three Theropod Clades”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(zoology) Any member of the Marginocephalia.


cobra de capello

en-noun

cobra de capello (plural cobras de capello)

From Portuguese cobra-de-capelo (“cobra”, literally “hooded snake”).

bor

An Indian cobra (Naja naja), a highly venomous Indian snake.


mulga snake

A member of the black snake family found in Australia, Pseudechis australis


padloper

Any of the genus Homopus of tiny tortoises, indigenous and endemic to southern Africa.


rinkhals

From Afrikaans rinkhals (“ring throat”).

A venomous elapid, Hemachatus haemachatus, found in parts of southern Africa.


trionychoid

(zoology) Any of the Trionychoidea, a group of turtles.


alligatoroid

Any crocodilian of the superfamily Alligatoroidea, which includes a number of extinct genera as well as the family Alligatoridae (alligators and caimans).


alvarezsaurian

Any extinct maniraptoran dinosaur of the superfamily Alvarezsauroidea


aigialosaur

From Ancient Greek αἰγιαλός (aigialós, “seashore”) and -saur.

der

Any of the family †Aigialosauridae of extinct semi-aquatic varanoid lizards.


carnosaur

Any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the infraorder Carnosauria


dinosauromorph

(zoology) Any archosaur of the clade Dinosauromorpha.


centrosaurine

Any ceratopsid dinosaur of the subfamily Centrosaurinae


dolichosaur

Any of the genus †Dolichosaurus of extinct squamate reptiles.


halisaurine

Any extinct marine squamate mosasaur of the subfamily Halisaurinae


hadrosaurian

Any bipedal dinosaur of the genus Hadrosaurus


lambeosaurine

Any crested hadrosaurid dinosaur of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae.


iguanodontian

(zoology) Any herbivorous dinosaur of the clade Iguanodontia.


maniraptoriform

(zoology) Any dinosaur, of the clade Maniraptoriformes, thought to be the common ancestors of all birds.


mosasaurine

Any extinct squamate mosasaur of subfamily Mosasaurinae


avialian

Any extinct dinosaur of the clade Avialae, together with any living descendant of class Aves (the birds).


palaeophiid

Any extinct sea snake in the family Palaeophiidae.


tethysaurine

Any mosasauroid of the genus †Tethysaurus


pannoniasaur

Any tethysaurine mosasauroid of the genus Pannoniasaurus


platynotan

Any anguimorph lizard of the clade Platynota


pontosaur

Any extinct pythonomorph of the genus †Pontosaurus


tylosaurine

Any mosasaur of the subfamily Tylosaurinae


therizinosaur

/ˌθɛɹɪˈzɪnəsɔː(r)/

Any theropod dinosaur of the clade Therizinosauria


red-eared turtle

en-noun

red-eared turtle (plural red-eared turtles)


ziphosuchian

(zoology) Any mesoeucrocodylian crocodyliform of the taxon Ziphosuchia.


micropachycephalosaurus

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + παχύς (pakhús, “thick”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard, reptile”).

a very small pachycephalosaurid, ornithischian dinosaur of the genus Micropachycephalosaurus.


deinonychus

deinonychus (plural deinonychuses or deinonychi)

deinonychuses (plural)
deinonychi (plural)

From translingual Deinonychus (1969), from Ancient Greek δεινός (deinós, “fearful, terrible”) (see dinosaur) + ὄνυξ (ónux, “nail, claw, talon”).

der

The first attempts were made on the remains of duckbill dinosaurs found in the Coleville River dig, but the real success was made when the University located the remains of three deinonychi at an Amoco drill site on the Alaskan North Slope.

1990 November, Allen Steele, “Trembling Earth”, in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, numbers 11–12 (whole 162–163), New York, N.Y.: Davis Publications, Inc., section 1 (The Mesozoic Express), page 64:

Bella kept half an eye out for the deinonychi. The deinonychus dinosaurs with the teeth and raking claws were big solid humans in the real.

1994, Gwyneth Jones, North Wind, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 1996, →ISBN, page 224:

In that chamber, lying curled, or sitting hunched, were five saurians: two deinonychi and three smaller ones that looked like some kind of miniature tyrannosaur.

1997, Diane Duane, The Book of Night with Moon, New York, N.Y.: Aspect, Warner Books, →ISBN, page 248:

A medium agile dinosaur, of the genus Deinonychus, of the Cretaceous period, characterized by having a large, curved claw on each hind foot.


abelisaurus

An abelisaurid theropod dinosaur, of genus Abelisaurus, from the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian) of what is now South America.

abelissauro

theropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous


sphenodon

Any of the other extinct reptiles of the Sphenodontidae family


olive ridley sea turtle

en-noun

olive ridley sea turtle (plural olive ridley sea turtles)

Lepidochelys olivacea, a species of sea turtle


Galapagos tortoise

Galapagos tortoise (plural Galapagos tortoises)

Chelonoidis nigra, a tortoise native to the Galapagos archipelago


ankylosaurian

Any dinosaur of the suborder Ankylosauria


nodosaur

From scientific Latin Nodosauridae (genus name).

Nodosaurs are ankylosaurid dinosaurs: armoured herbivorous reptiles that look like the love-child of a rhino and an army tank.

2017 September 27, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:

A dinosaur of the family Nodosauridae, especially a nodosaurus.


potamian

Ancient Greek ποτᾰ́μιος (potắmios, “of or from a river”), from ποτᾰμός (potămós, “river”).

uder

(zoology, dated) A softshell turtle (family Trionychidae)


tokay gecko

en-noun

tokay gecko (plural tokay geckos or tokay geckoes)

tokay geckos (plural)
tokay geckoes (plural)

Borrowed from Malay tokek. First attested in 1753, ultimately of onomatopoeic origin and imitative of its mating call.

A species of gecko native to Southeast Asia, Gekko gecko.


viviparous lizard

viviparous lizard (plural viviparous lizards)

Zootoca vivipara
Zootoca vivipara#Translingual

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see viviparous, lizard.

Zootoca vivipara, known as the common lizard in its relatively northerly Eurasian range.


red oak

red oak (countable and uncountable, plural red oaks)

Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America.


scuttler

(historical) A member of a local youth gang in working-class areas of Manchester, Salford, and surrounding townships during the late 19th century.


neosuchian

(paleontology) A member of the clade Neosuchia of crocodilian and related reptiles.


Egyptian cobra

A species of cobra found in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Naja haje) often referred to as an asp.


queen snake

Regina septemvittata, a non-venomous colubrid snake, endemic to North America.


dinosauriform

Any reptile of the extinct clade Dinosauriformes


stegosaurian

Any dinosaur of the suborder Stegosauria


neoceratopsian

Any dinosaur of the clade Neoceratopsia.


ophiophobia

From ophio- (“snake”) + -phobia (“fear of”).


diplodocoid

Any dinosaurs of the family Diplodocidae, and especially of the genus Diplodocus


diplodocine

Any dinosaur of the family Diplodocidae, and especially of the genus Diplodocus


megaloolithid

Any fossilised dinosaur egg of the oogenus Megaloolithus


titanosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Titanosauroidea


somphospondylian

Any of a group of dinosaurs, of the clade Macronaria, that are not also members of the family Brachiosauridae; they include the members of Euhelopodidae, Chubutisaurus and Titanosauria


macronarian

Any sauropod dinosaur of the clade Macronaria


titanosauriform

Any dinosaur of the clade Titanosauriformes


ornithodiran

Any birdlike reptile of the clade Ornithodira.


megalosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Megalosauroidea.


albertosaurine

Any dinosaur of the tyrannosaurid subfamily Albertosaurinae


hadrosauroid

Any dinosaur of the superfamily Hadrosauroidea


tyrannosaurine

Clipping of translingual Tyrannosaurinae

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Tyrannosaurinae</i>

Any dinosaur of the subfamily Tyrannosaurinae


gekkotan

(zoology) Any member of the Gekkota infraorder of reptiles, the geckos.


keelback

Any of various colubrid snakes of the subfamily Natricinae, whose dorsal scales exhibit strong keeling.


chin shield

Any of the scales found on the underside of a snake's head towards the anterior and touching the lower labial scales.


mudsnake

A snake of species Farancia abacura of non-venomous semi-aquatic colubrid snakes endemic to the southeastern United States.


notosuchian

suffix

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Notosuchia</i>

(zoology) A member of the Notosuchia, a suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Cretaceous period.


king brown

He was a long king brown, sliding through the grass as silky as 50 SAE motor oil as it pours from the can.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 17:

A large venomous snake native to Australia (Pseudechis australis).


dinophile

For what self-respecting dinophile would want to think of his favorite stock—the carnivorous lineage known as theropods—in undignified fashion, all covered with feathers?

2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Paleoimagery: The Evolution of Dinosaurs in Art, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 126:

Stephen Jay Gould, an admitted dinophile since childhood, examines Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park and our fascination with dinosaurs from a variety of perspectives, both scientific and cultural.

2002, Charles L. P. Silet, “Introduction”, in Charles L. P. Silet, editor, The Films of Steven Spielberg, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page xviii:

For the true dinophile, drive about 35 miles out of town to the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, where you'll find relics of more than 70 dinosaurs.

2012, Eric Peterson, Frommer's Utah, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 32:

(informal) One who is keenly interested in dinosaurs.


Gaboon viper

A large venomous viper, Bitis gabonica, found in African rainforests.


ichthyopterygian

Any Jurassic ichthyosaur of the superorder Ichthyopterygia.