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WHIPTAIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards
Synonyms:
whiptail; whiptail lizard
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("whiptail" is a kind of...):
teiid; teiid lizard (tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whiptail"):
Cnemidophorus sexlineatus; race runner; racerunner; six-lined racerunner (very swift lizard of eastern and central United States)
Cnemidophorus velox; plateau striped whiptail (having distinct longitudinal stripes: of Colorado Plateau from Arizona to western Colorado)
Chihuahuan spotted whiptail; Cnemidophorus exsanguis (having longitudinal stripes overlaid with light spots; upland lizard of United States southwest and Mexico)
Cnemidophorus tigris; western whiptail (active lizard having a network of dusky dark markings; of semiarid areas from Oregon and Idaho to Baja California)
checkered whiptail; Cnemidophorus tesselatus (markings are darker and more marked than in western whiptail; from southeastern Colorado to eastern Chihuahua)
Holonyms ("whiptail" is a member of...):
Cnemidophorus; genus Cnemidophorus (whiptails)
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