Webster's English Dictionary

Enter the word to look up:

saurian

sau.ri.an \'so.r-e--*n\ n [deriv. of Gck sauros horse mackerel, lizard; 
   akin to Gk psauein to] touch, graze : any of a group (Sauris) of reptiles 
   including the lizards and in older c lassifications the crocodiles and 
   various extinct forms (as the dinosaurs and ichthyosaurs) suggesting 
   lizards - saurian aj