lizardfolk

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English

Etymology

From lizard +‎ folk.

Pronunciation

Noun

lizardfolk (plural lizardfolk)

  1. A type of intelligent anthropomorphic creatures akin to (or created from) lizards; lizardmen.
    • 1988, David Drake, The Sea Hag, Baen Books, →ISBN:
      The guard beasts were intended to keep the dangers of the jungle out of Emath—the tribes of scaly lizardfolk...
    • 2002, David Eckelberry, Mike Selinker, Masters of the Wild, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:
      Lizardfolk druids are easier to integrate with the average game than are their centaur counterparts — it nothing else, it's easier to take a lizardfolk than a centaur into a dungeon.
    • 2003, Dawnforge: Crucible of Legend, Diamond Comic Distributors, →ISBN:
      When a lizardfolk chooses this ability, he can detect opponents within 10 feet (double that if the scent is upwind, one-half if downwind) and may take a move action to determine the direction of a scent.
    • 2011, James Wyatt, Oath of Vigilance: A Dungeons & Dragons Novel, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:
      Shara's blade cut the creature's flank, then the demon leaped over the terrified lizardfolk and vanished in a rising cloud of mist. “Quarhaun!” Shara called. “Bring Kssansk to look at this!”
    • 2011, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval: The Book of Loss, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 260:
      Several groups of dead sand lizardfolk were scattered across their path. Sand lizardfolk, or salamanders, were the desert cousins to the normal lizardman or lizardfolk.
    • 2012, Elizabeth Bear, Range of Ghosts, Macmillan, →ISBN:
      “These are the lizardfolk!” They did not look like lizards, but Temur, too, had heard of the tribes to the west who rode under the banners of dragons and wore their hide as armor.
    • 2013, Tim Rose, The Forging, Author House, →ISBN:
      Our friend here is a lizardfolk.