Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various lizards of the family Teiidae of the Americas, having a long forked tongue, a streamlined body, and large rectangular ventral scales, and including the whiptails and the racerunners.
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- adjective biology Of or belonging to the
Teiidae family of tropical Americanlizards . - noun biology A lizard in the family Teiidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Teiidae, family name, from Teius, type genus, from Portuguese tejú, tegu; see tegu.]
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Cifelli RL (2002) A new teiid lizard from the Cedar Mountain Formation
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Matthew C. Brandley et al. 2010
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For more information on Teiid, please visit www. teiid.org or watch the 'A New Open Source Technology for Data Virtualization 'presentation from the Technical Track of the
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