whiptail lizard

whiptail lizard
noun
any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards
Syn: ↑whiptail
Hypernyms: ↑teiid lizard, ↑teiid
Hyponyms:
Member Holonyms: ↑Cnemidophorus, ↑genus Cnemidophorus

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