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sau⋅ri⋅an

  [sawr-ee-uhn]
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–adjective
1. belonging or pertaining to the Sauria, a group of reptiles originally including the lizards, crocodiles, and several extinct forms but now technically restricted to the lizards.
2. resembling a lizard.
–noun
3. a saurian animal, as a dinosaur or lizard.
Origin:
1800–10; < NL Sauri(a) an order of reptiles + -an; see -saur
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sau·ri·an   (sôr'ē-ən)   
n.  Any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria, which includes the lizards and in former classifications also the crocodiles and dinosaurs.
adj.  Of or relating to the Sauria.

[From New Latin Sauria, suborder name, from saurus, lizard, from Greek sauros.]
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saurian 
reptile of the order Sauria, 1807, from Mod.L. sauria "the order of reptiles," from Gk. sauros "lizard," probably related to saulos "twisting, wavering." Sauropod is 1891, from Mod.L. sauropoda (O.C. Marsh, 1884), second element from Gk. pous "foot" (see foot).
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saurian   (sôr'ē-ən)  Pronunciation Key 
A lizard or similar reptile.
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