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What does Lacerta mean?

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  1. (astronomy) An inconspicuous autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lizard. It lies between the constellations of Cygnus and Andromeda.
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Neither have that rapid movement, so characteristic of the genera Lacerta and Iguana.
It was named Lacerta by Hevelius in 1690, and this name it still retains.
The following description, taken in the main from my own observations, applies to Lacerta muralis.
It is the Lacerta crocodilus of Linnus, from Greek a word of uncertain origin.
Linnus mentions three species, which he places with his great genus Lacerta.

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