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Definition of Agama

1. Noun. Small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World.

Definition of Agama

1. n. A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

Definition of Agama

1. Noun. Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae, especially in genera ''Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus'' and ''Xenagama''. ¹

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Definition of Agama

1. a tropical lizard [n -S]

Medical Definition of Agama

1. Origin: From the Caribbean name of a species of lizard. A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Agama

Literary usage of Agama

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

1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1887)
"Col. nokomis Blake (agama), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii, 260 ; xiii, 260, £ . ... Cala. uro Blake ( agama i. ibid, vii, 253 ; xiii, 273, venustas Blake, ibid, ..."

2. Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit by David Edwin Pingree (1994)
"BORI 619 of 1884/86 = BORI (agama) 244. 54ff. With a Gujarati tabba. ... BORI 604 of 1895/98 = BORI (agama) 245. 4ff. With a Gujarati tabba. ..."

3. A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera by Peter. Carmeron (1893)
"... agama. PI. II, fig. 2. ... agama, Htg., Germs. Zeits., ii, 188. The abdomen IB formed as in foli and ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hall Alderson, William Selwyn (1820)
"... when the committal took place, the proceeding was regular; but that he had frequently been sur' agama prised to find, that defendants were committed to ..."

5. Institutes of Jurisprudence by William Austin Montriou (1866)
"backed by a perfect agama,. When the agama is defective, bhoga, cannot be received as proof.—Nor can mere bhoga be evidence of ..."

6. The Class Reptilia by Edward Pidgeon, Edward Griffith, Georges Cuvier (1831)
"agama Tuberculata, Gray Zool. Jour. Head moderate ; scales of back rather ... agama Dorsalis, Gray. Head large, dilated behind ; scales rather small, ..."

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