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Lizard with a tapering tail
Answer for the clue "Lizard with a tapering tail ", 5 letters:
skink
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Word definitions for skink in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A lizard of the ''Scincidae'' family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed. Etymology 2 n. 1 (context obsolete English) drink 2 (context obsolete English) pottage vb. (context Scotland ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The skink s are a family of lizards. "Skink" may also refer to: Skink anti-aircraft tank , a Canadian World War II armoured vehicle developed but not put into service , a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918 nickname of Clinton ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skink \Skink\, n. Drink; also, pottage. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Middle French scinc (Modern French scinque ), from Latin scincus , from Greek skinkos , some kind of lizard common in Asia and North Africa, of unknown origin.
Usage examples of skink.
Most of the Skinks had dropped back, and three of the huge ones outraced their companions and had cut the distance between them to about thirty meters.
Nobody had said anything, but they all knew the recon teams would probably have to go belowground to find a Skink COG.
Dozens of skinks had crept out of the fernlike forest and they all seemed to be charging directly at him!
The burning eased and he grabbed the forestock again and flamed the skink that had just shot him.
But the Skinks were a problem that transcended interservice rivalries.
The meeting hall atop Mount Temple had been reduced to rubble by the constant bombardments, so the Convocation was sitting that day in spacious subcellars where the participants were relatively safe from the Skink weapons.
The skinks were bigger than the native amphibians, and their sounds would be different.
Society 437 showed Skink shuttles moving in and out of Beamspace inside a gravity well.
Not quite twelve hours, standard, travel time in Beamspace--assuming the Skinks traveled in Beamspace at the same rate as human ships.
Given the Skink ability to move in and out of Beamspace within a gravity well, the only question was how fast reinforcements could board ships.
Twenty-four hours and thirty-seven minutes after the Skink drone launched, a starship the size of a Crowe-class Amphibious Battle Cruiser popped out of Beamspace into orbit within visual range of the fast frigate CNSS Admiral J.
It dropped shuttles that popped in and out of Beamspace on their way around the globe to the Skink stronghold.
The Brattles and the several other families that had decided to leave the congregation were only a few kilometers down the road back to New Salem when the Skinks struck the encampment.
Others were in physical contact and used their blasters like quarter staffs, battering the Skinks, breaking their bones, smashing their flesh into bloody pulp.
The stunning, ear-ringing quiet that fell when the Skinks stopped battering the bunkers lasted only seconds.