FENCE LIZARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fence lizard mean? 

• FENCE LIZARD (noun)
  The noun FENCE LIZARD has 1 sense:

1. spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico

  Familiarity information: FENCE LIZARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FENCE LIZARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fence lizard" is a kind of...):

spiny lizard (any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales; of North America and Central America)

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

blue-belly; Sceloporus occidentalis; swift; western fence lizard (common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks)

eastern fence lizard; pine lizard; Sceloporus undulatus (small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia)