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Definition of Teiid
1. Noun. Tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail.
Generic synonyms: Lizard
Group relationships: Family Teiidae, Teiidae
Specialized synonyms: Whiptail, Whiptail Lizard, Teju, Caiman Lizard
Definition of Teiid
1. Adjective. (biology) Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards. ¹
2. Noun. (biology) A lizard in the family Teiidae. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Teiid
1. a tropical American lizard [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teiid
Literary usage of Teiid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Diversity between and within nominal forms of unisexual teiid lizards. ...
between the teiid lizards Cnemidophorus sonorae (parthenogenetic) and ..."
2. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"If any man hath an ear, let him hear. • • •stain he be killed. Here is the patience
and the faith of the uncertain, saints. 7 Or, teiid- ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1799)
"Thi« small tract is well calculated to assist those persons who at- teiid Mr.
Walker's Lectures on Astronomy. It has indeed the common fault of books of ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... first, let us at- •teiid, with Dr Clark, to the hereditary nature of the disease.
By hereditary predisposition ..."
5. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1890)
"... then it becomes clear how, through association of ideas, manifestations of
helplessness in beings other than offspring teiid to excite it. ..."
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