Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An agamid lizard, especially one of the genus Agama.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of small saurian reptiles, typical of the family Agamidæ (which see).
- noun [l. c] A member or species of the genus Agama, or of closely related genera: with a plural, agamas (-mäz).
- The agamous division of mollusks. See
agamous , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the various small, long-tailed
lizards of the subfamily Agaminae, especially ingenera Acanthocercus,Agama , Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Sling-tailed agama is a large, robust lizard (c. 300 mm long) with an armour-plated look, and it’s wide ranging, occurring across eastern Europe, northern Africa, north-east Arabia and Asia.
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence Darren Naish 2006
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The Sling-tailed agama is a large, robust lizard (c. 300 mm long) with an armour-plated look, and it’s wide ranging, occurring across eastern Europe, northern Africa, north-east Arabia and Asia.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Kemungkinan para keluarga puri berpikir, membangun masjid di dalam pura, sama dengan membangun palinggih lain untuk satu Istadewata dari satu agama lain.
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Hubungan antar agama tidak dapat didasarkan semata atas prasangka baik saja (apalagi prasangka buruk).
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Hindu bukanlah agama yang dogmatis, Ia adalah agama yang filosofis.
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Hindu bukanlah agama yang dogmatis, Ia adalah agama yang filosofis.
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Hindu bukanlah agama yang dogmatis, Ia adalah agama yang filosofis.
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A number of lizard species (skinks, geckos, agamas) are characteristic for the mountain forests, among those Himalayan rock agama (Stellio himalayanus), legless glass lizard (Ophisaurus apodus), Asian snake-eyed skink (Ablepharus pannonicus).
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Among the reptiles are isolated populations of four species: toad-headed agama Phrynocephalus versocolor, multicellated racerunner Eremias multiocellata, Gobi racerunner Eremias przewalskii and patterned grass-snake Elapha dione; also the locally rare adder Vipera berus, moccasin snake Aghistrodon halys, Tlafe agilis and sand lizard Lacerta agilis.
Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia 2008
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Typical Turanian desert reptiles found here include Central Asian tortoise (Testudo horsfieldi), Elaphe quatuorlineata, toad agama (Phrynocephalus ocellatus), runner Eremias arguta, gecko Alsophylax pipiens; in sand massifs, skink gecko (Teratoscincus scincus).
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