The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sauroid \Sau"roid\, a. [Gr. ? a lizard + -oid: cf. Gr. ? lizardlike.] (Zo["o]l.)
Like or pertaining to the saurians.
Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish.
Wiktionary
a. (context zoology English) Resembling or relating to the saurians.
Usage examples of "sauroid".
The neck guards of their helmets were sauroid leather as well, nearly as strong as chain mail and much lighter, and they were reinforced with studs of brass or silver.
He had a scrap of bloody sauroid hide in his hands, with a lump of something half-digested on it.
Sulu had never seen a Gorn except from the ah-, and he tried to keep himself from staring too openly at the sauroid aliens.
Standard procedure in a country where a hungry sauroid or whatever might happen by.
The necks of the squad wove a complex pavane, sauroid mouths opening and closing in a constant low atonal hiss that was almost a chant.
The diffident kessentai shook his sauroid head from side to side as the view-screens filled the room with the light of the descending primary.
A chant was growing throughout the camp, centered on the largest shelter, where a two-meter sauroid skull stood on a long pole.
Real Men, we want go home, hunt sauroid, fuck our own women, teach our sons.
Bekwa Skinner, with four-inch sauroid teeth through the lobes of his ears, face a mass of scars, some ritual, and crossed belts of huge brass shells on his chest.
Raj leaned forward, grinning like a sauroid and tapping one fist into a palm.
The heavy hollow point bullets hammered at the sauroids, punching fist-sized exit holes that gouted blood a darkish brick color.
Behind him two servants walked with the care of men carrying a burden not quite heavy enough to be uncomfortable, a huge silver dish of roasted sauroids on a bed of the inevitable boiled rice and dates.
There were humans there, too, unknown to the Confederatswa or the Karghanik Empire, and sapient ocean life forms as well, but the sauroids interested him most.
They lived on dogback, up in the northern steppes, hunting the big grazing sauroids and anything else that moved with their huge two-meter 15mm rifles.
The brush rustled, more so when several chicken-sized sauroids with short horns on their noses and lines of feathers down their forearms scuttled away from under the thrashing body.