gridiron-tailed lizard

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun a lizard having a long tail with black bands (Callisaurus draconoides), which lives in the deserts of the southwestern U. S. and Mexico; called also zebra-tailed lizard.

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• noun swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs; of deserts of United States and Mexico