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Definition of Stellion
1. n. A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive- green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard.
Definition of Stellion
1. Noun. (zoology) A lizard (''Stellio vulgaris''), olive-green with small stellate spots, common in the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. ¹
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Definition of Stellion
1. a Mediterranean lizard [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stellion
Literary usage of Stellion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum by British Museum (Natural History), John Edward Gray (1845)
"Presented by Charles Fellowes, The CAUCASIAN stellion. ... Caucasus, Tiflis.
tt Neck with a small crest. The BLUE-BELLIED stellion. ..."
2. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum by British Museum (Natural History), John Edward Gray (1845)
"Adult, in spirits. Asia Minor. Presented by A. Christy, Esq. f. Adult, in spirits.
Asia Minor. Presented by Charles Fellowes, The CAUCASIAN stellion. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"In Scots and civil law the word "stellion- ate" denotes all such crimes in which
fraud is an ingredient, as have no special names to distinguish them, ..."
4. Principles of the Law of Scotland by John Erskine, George Moir, William Guthrie (1870)
"2, stellion. 47. 20. The persons guilty of that rights. kind of it which consist
in granting double conveyances, are by our law declared infamous, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"There is a great variety of reptiles, of which sixty-one species have been catalogued.
The saurians are all harmless; among them the stellion ..."
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