Lacerta Definition

lə-sûrtə
noun
A N constellation in the Milky Way, between Cygnus and Andromeda.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • genus Lacerta
pronoun

(astronomy) An inconspicuous autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lizard. It lies between the constellations of Cygnus and Andromeda.

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Origin of Lacerta

  • Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. From Latin lacerta, a "lizard"

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin lacerta lizard

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lacerta Sentence Examples

  • The common lizard (Lacerta vivipara) frequents heaths and banks in England and Scotland, and is locally met with also in.

  • Much scarcer is the second species, the sand-lizard (Lacerta agilis), which is confined to some localities in the south of England, the New Forest and its vicinity; it does not appear to attain on English soil the same size as on the continent of Europe where it abounds, growing sometimes to a length of 9 in.

  • The third British species, the green lizard (Lacerta viridis), does not occur in England proper; it has, found a congenial home in the island of Guernsey, but is there much less developed as regards size and beauty than on the continent.

  • The same root kar leads through something like kar-kar-ta, glakarta (glazard in Breton), to lacerta and to "lizard."

  • Lacerta in turn has become, in Spanish, lagarto, which, with the article, el lagarto, is the origin of the term "alligator."

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