iguanid

1. Lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands;
   Typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males (synset 101679396)
   is a type of: lizard - relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
   subtypes:

   • common iguana, iguana, iguana iguana - large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America
   • amblyrhynchus cristatus, marine iguana - shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands
   • desert iguana, dipsosaurus dorsalis - small long-tailed lizard of arid areas of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico
   • chuckwalla, sauromalus obesus - a herbivorous lizard that lives among rocks in the arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico
   • callisaurus draconoides, gridiron-tailed lizard, zebra-tailed lizard - swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs; of deserts of United States and Mexico
   • fringe-toed lizard, uma notata - with long pointed scales around toes; of deserts of United States and Mexico
   • earless lizard - any of several slender lizards without external ear openings: of plains of western United States and Mexico
   • collared lizard - any of several robust long-tailed lizards with collars of two dark bands; of central and western United States and northern Mexico
   • leopard lizard - any of several large lizards with many dark spots; of western United States and northern Mexico
   • spiny lizard - any of numerous lizards with overlapping ridged pointed scales; of North America and Central America
   • sand lizard, side-blotched lizard, uta stansburiana - one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States
   • tree lizard, urosaurus ornatus - a climbing lizard of western United States and northern Mexico
   • horned lizard, horned toad, horny frog - insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America
   • basilisk - small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America
   • american chameleon, anole, anolis carolinensis - small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color
   belongs to: family iguania, family iguanidae, iguania, iguanidae - New World lizards
   same as: iguanid lizard

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