[
UK
/skˈɪŋk/
]
NOUN
- alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide
How To Use skink In A Sentence
- For many years he held masterclasses at the Conservatoire de Paris and Helskinki's Sibelius Academy.
- Another time, the Skink commander was fired on by a sniper. Unhurt but furious, the commander directed the Skink's guns to fire in the direction of the sniper.
- Highly endangered endemics include the Bermuda petrel (Pterodroma cahow), whose nesting sites are currently restricted to a few outlying islets, and the Bermuda skink (Eumeces longirostris). Bermuda subtropical conifer forests
- While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
- The New York Times claims it comes from the Middle High German word for a weak beer, which seems to make some of sense for a thin soup, but the Oxford Companion to Food counters that it's a variation of the German "schinke", or ham, denoting a shin specifically: "so the archetypal skink is a soup made from shin of beef". How to cook perfect cullen skink
- HANNA: A skink is a lizard, but it's a prehensile tail. CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007
- Skinklan pouther frae a licht yowden-drift o' snaw. Languagehat.com: SCOTS DICTIONARIES ONLINE.
- While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
- There's no way a gecko or skink, for example, will grow as big as a Brachiosaurus.
- There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks, iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.
