IGUANID LIZARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iguanid lizard mean? 

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

1. lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IGUANID LIZARD (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

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

iguanid; iguanid lizard

Hypernyms ("iguanid lizard" 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 lizard"):

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 lizard" is a member of...):

family Iguania; family Iguanidae; Iguania; Iguanidae (New World lizards)