teiid

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('ĭd) pronunciation
adj.
Of or belonging to the Teiidae, a large family of mainly tropical American lizards characterized by a long forked tongue and the absence of bony plates beneath the scales.

n.
A lizard of the family Teiidae.

[From New Latin Teiidae, family name, from Teius, type genus, from Portuguese tejú, tegu. See tegu.]


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