varanidn.
Zoology.
= varanian n.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Varanidae or genus Varanus > member of (monitor)
guana1697
worrala1701
monitory lizard1790
monitor1802
goanna1831
safeguard1831
sauvegarde1840
varanian1841
varan1843
water lizard1865
monitor lizard1869
varanid1896
varanus1934
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 422 Allied [to the lizards] are the Varanids (Varanus), large, tropical, old-world forms with long bifid tongue.
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= varanian adj.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [adjective] > belonging to Varanidae
varanian1841
monitorial1878
varanid1959
1959 Austral. Museum Mag. Sept. 75/2 Another breeding habit peculiar to some varanid species..is that of burrowing into the centre of a termite mound.
1978 Nature 17 Aug. 662/1 Prosauropods probably could feed tripodally—supporting their weight on the hindlimbs and stout tail, much as modern varanid lizards do when threatened.
1985 D. Norman Illustr. Encycl. Dinosaurs 35/2 (caption) The varanid lizards of today (the monitor lizards) appear to be distant living relatives of the gigantic mosasaurs of the late Cretaceous seas.
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