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galliwasp (medicine) and lias (iou)


galliwasp (medicine)


galliwasp
<zoology> A West Indian lizard (Celestus occiduus), about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.

Origin: Etymol. Uncertain.

Source: Websters Dictionary


lias (iou)



lias noun. In sense 1 orig. lyas; in sense 2 usu. Lias. LME.
[Old French liais hard limestone, prob. from lie LEE noun2.]
1. A kind of blue argillaceous limestone rock, esp. as it occurs in SW England. LME.
2. Geology. the Lias, a series of fossiliferous strata forming the lowest division of the Jurassic system, and including blue argillaceous limestones. E19.
liassic adjective (Geology) of or pertaining to the Lias M19.