lizardly
Reminiscent of or similar to a lizard.
Adjective
- Reminiscent of or similar to a lizard.
- […] the eyes of replicants creator Dr. Eldon Tyrell are magnified by large lenses in his glasses, giving him a lizardly look. - 2009, James W. Roman, Bigger Than Blockbusters: Movies that Defined America, page 258:
- Pertaining to lizards; lizard-related.
- Only the taloned fingers at the "shoulders" of their wings showed the lizardly blood, and their orange bills full of sharp fishy teeth. - 1988, B. W. Clough, The Name of the Sun, volume 3, page 126:
- But whatever malign emotions we tried to pin on to the lizard, we knew that they weren't the lizard's emotions at all, only ours. The lizard was simply going about its lizardly business in a simple, straightforward...
Origin
Etymology tree English lizard English -ly English lizardly From lizard + -ly.