Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or belonging to the Teiidae, a large family of mainly tropical American lizards characterized by a long forked tongue and the absence of bony plates beneath the scales.
- n. A lizard of the family Teiidae.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.
- n. biology A lizard in the family Teiidae.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail
Etymologies
- From New Latin Teiidae, family name, from Teius, type genus, from Portuguese tejú, tegu; see tegu. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Cifelli RL (2002) A new teiid lizard from the Cedar Mountain Formation”
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WWF WTF?
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pretty dots all in a row
polka dotted words
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swishcheese and quantum leapfogs
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Discovered Scrabble Words
Oh, that little smiling teacher tile in my Scrabble app. He teaches me so much.
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
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qreen-tailed
in the Century Dictionary definition of 'menhaden' there is a misprint - I speculate- o 'qreen-tailed'for green-tailed. BUT there are alot of odd-tails out there..............
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ooh shiny
words I like with little or no rationalization
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