lizardling

lizardling

English

Etymology

From lizard +‎ -ling.

Noun

lizardling (plural lizardlings)

1. A small, young, or immature lizard.
   • 1916, The Atlantic monthly - Volume 117 - Page 45:

     Of reptiles there was a broken skull of some lizard, long since dead, and the eggshell of a lizardling which had hatched and gone forth upon his mission into the jungle.

   • 1928, Nature magazine - Volumes 11-12 - Page 47:

     [...] a little nest of dirty white rubber-shelled eggs, and recognized them for the treasure of Mrs. Sceloporus occidentalis, she left them there to complete their six-weeks period of incubation, and to turn into inch-long lizardlings.

   • 1988, New York Zoological Society, Animal kingdom - Volume 91 - Page 10:

     Lizardlings thus hatch out and wander off on their own without parental contact or the opportunities for learning that such contact provides.