Obs. [ad. Gr. κορδύλ-ος water-newt.] An old book-name of the water-newt, or some allied animal; now applied to a genus of lizards (Cordylus).
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1653), 681. Of the Cordil … I finde some difference about the nature of this living creature … whether it be a Serpent or a Fish.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1860), II. II. iv. 402/2. The Cordyle, the Tockay, and the Tejuguacu.
