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green lizard
green lizard n. any of various green-coloured lizards; spec.: (a) a large lizard, Lacerta viridis (family Lacertidae), found from Iberia to Ukraine; (b) U.S. the green anole, Anole carolinensis.
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1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 182 Make a powder of a greene lizard, and arsnicke, put it into the eie [sc. of a horse], for to fret awaie the naile.
1685 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis (new ed.) i. 45 The Green Lizard. It was brought from the West-Indies.
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 131 Green Lizards are very harmless and beautiful, having a little Bladder under their Throat, which they fill with Wind.
1776 S. Ward Mod. Syst. Nat. Hist. XI. 57 The green lizard is so called from its colour, and is larger than the common sort.
1832 T. Brown Zoologist's Text-bk. I. 291 Lacerta viridis.—The Green Lizard. Bright green, with numerous black or brown points above.
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 96 The green lizard (Anolis principalis) of the Southern United States is sometimes called the American chameleon.
1973 A. d'A. Bellairs & J. F. D. Frazer Smith's Brit. Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 5) ii. 17 The introduction of..Lacerta viridis, the Green Lizard, into the south of England has also proved unsuccessful.
2004 Herpetologica 60 193/2 Sightings and photographic records were communicated..by oil workers and biologists who referred to this lizard [sc. Liolaemus gununakuna] as the ‘green lizard’.
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