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IGUANID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males
Synonyms:
iguanid; iguanid lizard
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("iguanid" 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 "iguanid"):
common iguana; iguana; Iguana iguana (large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America)
Amblyrhynchus cristatus; marine iguana (shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands)
desert iguana; Dipsosaurus dorsalis (small long-tailed lizard of arid areas of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico)
chuckwalla; Sauromalus obesus (a herbivorous lizard that lives among rocks in the arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico)
Callisaurus draconoides; gridiron-tailed lizard; zebra-tailed lizard (swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs; of deserts of United States and Mexico)
fringe-toed lizard; Uma notata (with long pointed scales around toes; of deserts of United States and Mexico)
earless lizard (any of several slender lizards without external ear openings: of plains of western United States and Mexico)
collared lizard (any of several robust long-tailed lizards with collars of two dark bands; of central and western United States and northern Mexico)
leopard lizard (any of several large lizards with many dark spots; of western United States and northern Mexico)
spiny lizard (any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales; of North America and Central America)
sand lizard; side-blotched lizard; Uta stansburiana (one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States)
tree lizard; Urosaurus ornatus (a climbing lizard of western United States and northern Mexico)
horned lizard; horned toad; horny frog (insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America)
basilisk (small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America)
American chameleon; anole; Anolis carolinensis (small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color)
Holonyms ("iguanid" is a member of...):
family Iguania; family Iguanidae; Iguania; Iguanidae (New World lizards)
