Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various swift teiid lizards chiefly of the genera Aspidoscelis and Cnemidophorus, having a long slender tail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the skua gulls, Stercorarius longicaudus, so called from the two long, slender tail-feathers.
- noun A fish. See
Tasmanian whiptail .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of many New World
lizards , of the genus Cnemidophorus, that have long, slendertails . - noun A fish, the blue grenadier, Macruronus novaezelandiae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards
Etymologies
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Examples
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The fence lizard and the whiptail are the most closely related of the pair, but even their last common ancestor still lived at least
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There are several species of New Mexico whiptail lizards that reproduce exclusively by parthenogenesis.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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There are several species of New Mexico whiptail lizards that reproduce exclusively by parthenogenesis.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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Hoxc11 and Hoxc12 were not analysed in the whiptail lizard.
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There are several species of New Mexico whiptail lizards that reproduce exclusively by parthenogenesis.
Sparks Laura Bickle 2010
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Evolutionary modifications of the posterior Hox system in the whiptail lizard and corn snake.
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So few people in our community seem to care about what is happening to desert animals like the roadrunners, rock squirrels, whiptail lizards and kangaroo rats, let alone the great diversity of desert plants, who live in these places.
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But the New Mexico Whiptail, as well as several other all-female species of whiptail lizard, does reproduce, and all of its offspring are female.
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Several lizard species that are adapted to the exposed, sun-baked landscape of West Texas are indicative of the succulent desert shrubland: the round-tailed horned lizard, the checkered whiptail, and the greater earless lizard.
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Several additional reptile species are near-endemics, including Drakensberg rock gecko (Afroendura niravia), giant spinytail lizard (Cordylus giganteus), and Breyer's whiptail (Tetrodactylus breyeri) (Branch 1998).
Highveld grasslands 2008
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