Definitions for skink

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Spelling: [skingk]
IPA: /skɪŋk/

Skink is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in skink (ikkns).

Definitions for skink

noun

  1. any of numerous lizards of the family Scincidae, common in many regions of the Old and New World, typically having flat, smooth, overlapping scales and comprising terrestrial, arboreal, and fossorial species.

verb (used with object)

  1. to serve (a beverage).

Origin of skink

1580-90; Latin scincus Greek skínkos lizard

Examples for skink

Nevertheless, in about five minutes the skink had swallowed it entire.

In whatever way the skink manoeuvred, his antagonist met him with his scarlet front.

The racer broke the skink's grip, and began to swallow it head first.

I watched a kingfisher capture and swallow a skink on January 14.

The shape and size of some of the excavations suggested predation on skink nests.

True, the story contains no sex scenes and no swearing, and its protagonists, other than skink, are two plucky teenagers.

But if Hiaasen were none of those things, if all he had ever done was to create the character of skink, that would be enough.

And with skink as his guide, Richard discovers the pleasures of the unplugged life.

Like all its tribe, the skink loves sandy localities, the soil exactly suiting its peculiar habits.

To judge from specimens available, E. dugesi probably is the most abundant and widespread species of skink in the state.

Word Value for skink
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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