scintillant (sintilant)

[= F. scintillant Sp. centellante = Pg. It. scintillante, illate.] 1. Emitting lit But who can view the pointed rays That from black eyes scintillant blaze? M. Green, The Spleen. Slim spires And palace-roofs and swollen domes uprose Like scintillant stalagmites in the sun. as in the Gerrhosauridæ: it is typified by the genus Scincus; the skinks. The family is widely distributed, and the species and genera are very numerous. See cuts under Cyclodus, Scin cus, and skink. scinciform (sin'si-fôrm), a. [L. scincus, skink, + form a, form.] Resembling a skink in form or aspect; related to the skinks; scincoid. scincoid (sing'koid), a. and n. [NL. Scincus + -oid.] I. a. Resembling a skink; related or belonging to the Scincidæ; scinciform. II. n. A member of the Scincidæ in a broad sense.