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teiid

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"New World lizard"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPart of speech nounSorted deiitStarts with TEnds with D1 clues
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Definitions

  1. tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail

Used in a sentence

  • The teiids we know today are a New World family, ecological counterparts of Old World lacertids. Historically, teiids had a wider distribution, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together).
  • The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects.

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