Definition of Beaded lizard

1. Noun. Lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico.

Exact synonyms: Heloderma Horridum, Mexican Beaded Lizard
Generic synonyms: Venomous Lizard
Group relationships: Genus Heloderma, Heloderma

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaded Lizard

beaconless
beaconlike
beacons
bead
bead-breaker
bead and quirk
bead breaker
bead fern
bead lightning
bead proof
bead tree
beadboard
beadboards
beaded
beaded hair
beaded lizard (current term)
beader
beaders
beadery
beadful
beadhouse
beadhouses
beadier
beadiest
beadily
beadiness
beadinesses
beading
beading of the ribs
beading plane

Literary usage of Beaded lizard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"... A Family Composed o\ but Two Species—The Gila Monster and ibe Mexican Beaded Lizard—Both of the Genus ..."

2. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"—The two species included in this family are the gila monster, Hdo- derma suspectum, of Arizona and New Mexico, and the beaded lizard, //. horrid urn, ..."

3. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"of the New World appear to be the Gila monster and the Mexican beaded lizard, neither of which occurs in northern New Mexico. Among the snakes the only ..."

4. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"... and Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum). Several species commonly thought of as desert dwellers actually occur in the tropical deciduous forest ..."

5. Natural Emirates: Wildlife and Environment of the United Arab Emirates by Peter Vine (1996)
"... gila monster and the Mexican beaded lizard both from the Americas, there are numerous poisonous snakes, in various forms on all the continents, ..."

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