/sawr"ee euhn/ , adj.
1. belonging or pertaining to the Sauria, a group of reptiles originally including the lizards, crocodiles, and several extinct forms but now technically restricted to the lizards.
2. resembling a lizard.
n.
3. a saurian animal, as a dinosaur or lizard.
[ 1800-10; Sauri ( a ) an order of reptiles + -AN; see -SAUR ]