skinks in English

noun
1
a smooth-bodied lizard with short or absent limbs, typically burrowing in sandy ground, and occurring throughout tropical and temperate regions.
There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks , iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.
noun
    scincid

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1. We studied the ultrastructure of epididymal spermatozoa viviparous skinks, Mabuya multifasciata and Sphenomorphus indicus.

2. Skinks were not found on portions of the power line access roads with dense spotted knapweed cover.

3. Look ‘Ma, No Tail: Tail Autotomy in Lizards Some gekos, lizards, skinks and salamanders have the ability of tail Autotomy

4. 383) noted that the skinks "burrow with some ease, utilizing the snout while adpressing the limbs to the sides of the body and tail."

5. Before humans first arrived on Ile aux Aigrettes, various giant tortoises lived there, as did giant skinks -- a type of lizard -- and, most likely, flightless dodo birds

6. Ingestion of addled eggs may help to protect the female and her remaining viable eggs (Groves, 1982), as many predators of skinks locate their prey by olfactory cues (Fitch, 1954; Groves, 1982).

7. Agamid lizards (bearded dragons, water dragons, and Rankin's dragons), chameleons, gekkota lizards (fat-tailed geckos, leopard geckos, and tokay geckos), helodermatid lizards (Gila monsters and Mexican beaded lizards), monitors (savannah monitors and emerald monitors), and skinks, such as the blue-tongued skink, can all be infected by this