chinese crocodile lizard
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.25 in modern English
42
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A semiaquatic anguimorph lizard, of species Shinisaurus crocodilurus, found only in cool forests in southeastern China and northeastern Vietnam.
Example Sentences
- "From left: Chinese crocodile lizard Shinisaurus crocodilurus (L. W. Porras); flathead knob-scaled lizard Xenosaurus platyceps, Xenosauridae (L. J. Vitt)."
- "The Anniellidae (North American Legless Lizards), Helodermatidae (Gila Monster), Lanthanotidae (Earless Monitor), and Shinisauridae (Chinese Crocodile Lizard) have only one or two species; Xenosauridae (Knob-scaled Lizards) has six species in Mexico and northern Central America."
- "McDowell and Bogert (1954) argued that the present-day Xenosaurus (knob-scaled lizards) and Shinisaurus (Chinese crocodile lizard) are closely related to each other even though they differ considerably in overall appearance (Fig. 7.40A)."
- "I saw a Japanese skink, a Chinese crocodile lizard, and a leopard gecko... They were all pretty docile."