1. Any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria, which includes the lizards and in former classifications also the crocodiles and dinosaurs.

2. Any of numerous reptiles of the suborder Sauria or Lacertilia, characteristically having a scaly elongated body, movable eyelids, four legs, and a tapering tail.

3. Any of about 3,000 species of reptiles constituting the suborder Sauria.

4. Because this was the diet of the people who lived in ancient Sauria, one would expect them to have had long and healthy lives.

5. Old World chameleons; in some classifications Rhiptoglossa is considered a superfamily of Sauria.