What does lizardling mean?
Lizardling means A small, young, or immature lizard..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A small, young, or immature lizard..
Of reptiles there was a broken skull of some lizard, long since dead, and the eggshell of a lizardling which had hatched and gone forth upon his mission into the jungle.
[...] a little nest of dirty white rubber-shelled eggs, and recognized them for the treasure of Mrs. Sceloporus occidentalis, she left them there to complete their six-weeks period of incubation, and to turn into inch-long lizardlings.
Lizardlings thus hatch out and wander off on their own without parental contact or the opportunities for learning that such contact provides.
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Lizardling means A small, young, or immature lizard..
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Of reptiles there was a broken skull of some lizard, long since dead, and the eggshell of a lizardling which had hatched and gone forth upon his mission into the jungle.
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