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AGAMID

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Meaning:

A lizard of the family Agamidae

Synonyms:

agamid; agamid lizard

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("agamid" is a kind of...):

lizard (relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agamid"):

agama (small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World)

Chlamydosaurus kingi; frilled lizard (large arboreal insectivorous Australian lizard with a ruff of skin around the neck)

dragon; flying dragon; flying lizard (any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body)

moloch (any lizard of the genus Moloch)

Holonyms ("agamid" is a member of...):

Agamidae; family Agamidae (an Old World reptile family of Sauria)

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