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Definition of Tupinambis
1. Noun. Tejus.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Teiidae, Teiidae
Member holonyms: Teju
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tupinambis
Literary usage of Tupinambis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural by Richard Lydekker (1888)
"Genus tupinambis, Daudin '. Cheek-teeth laterally compressed in the young, but
with obtuse crowns in the adult. ..."
2. Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals by Frank Evers Beddard (1905)
"tupinambis teguexin, is due to a curious error. ... In fact, the tupinambis is
said to emulate the bull-dog in the tenacity with which it will hold on to ..."
3. Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English Encyclopedia" edited by Charles Knight (1867)
"Pale, body and tail with broad black cross bands; scales of the orbit dilated,
equal U, rarius, Gray, (Lacerta varia, Shaw; tupinambis ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"Madame Merian seems to have been the first who used the term tupinambis thus
erroneously, and she was followed by ..."
5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"Daudin separated the larger portion of the species under the generic appellation
of tupinambis, a name which owes its origin to the following error:— ..."
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