lizards
- 1Plural of lizard.
Several lizards darted across the hot desert sand at midday.
Lizards shed their skin in patches as they grow.
Note
A regular plural made with -s. It carries every sense of the singular: the reptiles themselves, and also the colloquial insults for an oily, fawning person or a coward. One use resists it. When the noun is a modifier meaning the skin, it stays singular, so a bag is made of lizard, not lizards. Compounds naming someone who idles in a particular place take the -s on the final element.
lizards is a form of lizard
lizard, noun: A scaly reptile of the order Squamata, other than a snake, usually having a rounded body, a short neck with a raised head, four limbs, and a long tail, though some kinds are legless. Full entry
- Forms
- lizardlizards plural
- Spelling
- lizard → lizards: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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