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Definition of Chuckwallas
1. chuckwalla [n] - See also: chuckwalla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chuckwallas
Literary usage of Chuckwallas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Denizens of the Desert: A Book of Southwestern Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles by Edmund Carroll Jaeger (1922)
"The Indians prepared chuckwallas for eating by roasting them over a bed of coals.
There is no reason to believe that the white flesh is not palatable. ..."
2. California Desert Trails by Joseph Smeaton Chase (1919)
"... Lack of the humane element — Entering the chuckwallas — Trail troubles —
Moonlight and mystery — Corn Springs — Picture-writings — Hotel de Corn Springs ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"I'll keep one canteen, and you can take the other; I have matches and my six-shooter,
and I can live on quail and chuckwallas until I get to the river. ..."
4. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"... unfruitful, shifting sands, where the heat is frightful and where nothing can
live save horned toads, lizards, snakes, chuckwallas, and gila monsters. ..."
5. Type Stories of the World for Little Folk by Ruth Thompson (1922)
"... the coyote; the lizard; the buzzard and crow; the roadrunner; many kinds of
snakes; horned toads; mice; squirrels; gila monsters; chuckwallas. ..."
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