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FENCE LIZARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fence lizard" is a kind of...):
spiny lizard (any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales; of North America and Central America)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fence lizard"):
blue-belly; Sceloporus occidentalis; swift; western fence lizard (common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks)
eastern fence lizard; pine lizard; Sceloporus undulatus (small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia)