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Flying lizard   /flˈaɪɪŋ lˈɪzərd/   Listen
Flying lizard

noun
1.
Any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body.  Synonyms: dragon, flying dragon.






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"Flying lizard" Quotes from Famous Books



... flight which remain glorious failures, notably the flying fishes, which take a great leap and hold their pectoral fins taut; the Flying Tree-Toad, whose webbed fingers and toes form a parachute; the Flying Lizard (Draco volans), which has its skin pushed out on five or six greatly elongated mobile ribs; and various "flying" mammals, e.g. Flying Phalangers and Flying Squirrels, which take great swooping leaps from tree ...
— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson

... and it is very interesting to Darwinians as showing that the variability of the toes which have been already modified for purposes of swimming and adhesive climbing, have been taken advantage of to enable an allied species to pass through the air like the flying lizard. It would appear to be a new species of the genus Rhacophorus, which consists of several frogs of a much smaller size than this, and having the webs of the toes ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace



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