Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large stocky venomous lizard (Heloderma suspectum) of the southwest United States and western Mexico, having black and orange, pink, or yellowish beadlike scales.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
monster .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.) A large tuberculated lizard (
Heloderma suspectum ) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, that lives in the deserts of the southwestern
USA and northwesternMexico
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large orange and black lizard of southwestern United States; not dangerous unless molested
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the Gila River.]
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