单词 | ocellated lizard |
释义 | > as lemmasocellated lizard ocellated lizard n. [after scientific Latin Lacerta ocellata (1775); compare French lézard ocellé (1801–2)] a long-tailed green lizard, Lacerta lepida (family Lacertidae), of southern Europe and north-west Africa, juveniles of which are marked with black-centred eyespots and adults often with large blue spots on the flanks. ΚΠ 1859 S. G. Goodrich Illustr. Nat. Hist. Animal Kingdom II. 377 The Ocellated Lizard, L. ocellata, is a very beautiful species, a foot in length, of a fine green color, reticulated and spotted with black, and adorned with blue spots on the side of the body. 1933 Discovery Apr. 123/1 Among reptiles we have good examples [of eye-spots] in the cobra's spectacles and the blue rings on the flanks of the ocellated lizard. 1996 Conservation Biol. 10 883/2 Ocellated lizards also leave fragments of eggshell and may partially predate the nest. < as lemmas |
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