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say it: LIZ-urd
lizard is a noun meaning "relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail". It carries 2 recorded senses.
relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lizard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.