ABSP - Reptiles

Reptiles

aboma	a S. American snake.
adder	a venomous snake.
agama agamid	a tropical lizard.
agamoid	having the features of an AGAMID.
aligarta alligarta	an old term for alligator.
alligator	a reptile of a mainly American family related to the crocodile but with a shorter, broader snout and non-protruding teeth.
amphisbaena	a worm-lizard; also, a mythical two-headed serpent or lizard.
anaconda	a S. American boa of the genus Eunectes.
anguifauna	the snakes of a region.
anguine	of or pertaining to snakes.
anole	a tropical lizard.
asp	a venomous snake.
aspick	an asp.
aspish	pertaining to, or like, an asp.
basilisk	a harmless crested lizard of Central America; also, a legendary lizard/serpent with lethal breath and glance.
blacksnake	a snake of a black color, found in the US.
blindworm	a kind of legless lizard, aka slowworm.
boa	a kind of constricting snake.
boma	a S. American boa and anaconda.
boomslang	a highly venomous southern African tree-snake.
bullsnake	an American burrowing snake.
bushmaster	a venomous snake.
caiman cayman	the South American alligator.
cameleon chameleon chamaeleon	a lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
camoodi	(Caribbean) an anaconda.
cerastes	a genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper. [Gk. kerastes, from keras, a horn].
chelonian	any member of the turtle or tortoise family.
chuckwalla chuckawalla	an iguanid lizard of Mexico and the south-western US. [Mex. Sp. chacahuala from Amer. Indian.]
coachwhip	a large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States. [Strange that this is non-TLW when it's your snake — so what do you call it?]
cobra	a kind of snake.
cobric	of or like a cobra.
cobriform	like or related to the cobra.
colubrid	a kind of snake, including the garter and king snake.
colubriform	shaped like a snake.
colubrine	like a snake; cunning.
cooter	a kind of turtle.
copperhead	a poisonous American serpent, closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles.
cottonmouth	an American snake.
croc	crocodile.
crocodile	a large long-tailed tropical reptile of the genus Crocodilus (order Crocodilia).
crotaline	of or pertaining to rattlesnakes.
dendrophis	a snake of the genus Dendrophis, a tree snake.
diamondback	a kind of rattlesnake.
diapsid	a reptile whose skull has two pairs of temporal arches > DIAPSIDS. Cf. SYNAPSID.
dipsas	a fabulous snake whose bite was believed to cause intense thirst. [Gk. dipsa, thirst]. Pl. DIPSADES.
draco	as in draco lizard, a kind of flying lizard. No —S.
dugite	an Australian venomous snake.
elapid	a kind of snake, including cobras, krait, taipan etc.
elapine	like or pertaining to the Elapidae, a family of venomous snakes, including the cobras.
emyd emyde	a genus of freshwater terrapin.
emys	a genus of freshwater terrapin > EMYDES.
gaboon	a kind of snake, the gaboon viper.
galapago	a kind of tortoise > GALAPAGOS.
galliwasp	a West Indian lizard, about a foot long, imagined by the natives to be venomous.
garial gavial gharial	an Indian crocodile with a long snout. [Hindi ghariyal, crocodile].
gator gater	an alligator.
gavialoid	of or like a GAVIAL.
gecko	any lizard of the family Geckonidae. Pl. GECKOS or GECKOES.
gila	a large tuberculated lizard native to Arizona, New Mexico, etc.
goanna	a kind of lizard.
gotcha	as in gotcha lizard, an Australian name for a crocodile. No —S.
guana	any large lizard.
habu	a venomous snake, found in Asia.
hamadryad	a king cobra. Also a wood-nymph; also a kind of baboon. Pl. HAMADRYADS or HAMADRYADES.
hatteria	a kind of New Zealand lizard, aka SPHENODON or TUATERA.
hawkbill hawksbill	a kind of sea turtle.
herpetoid	of or relating to snakes.
hicatee hiccatee	a West Indian freshwater tortoise.
hognose	a short-bodied, harmless American snake.
iguana	a tropical lizard.
iguanian	resembling, or pertaining to, the IGUANA.
iguanid	any member of the iguana family.
jacare	(Tupi) the caiman.
jararaca jararaka	a venomous serpent of Brazil.
kabaragoya	(Tagalog) a very large monitor lizard.
kingsnake	a N. American snake.
karait krait	a venomous snake of India.
lacertian	relating to lizards; (noun) a member of the lizard family > LACERTIANS.
lacertid	a lizard.
lacertilian	of or pertaining to lizards; (noun) a member of the lizard family > LACERTILIANS.
lacertine	lizard-like.
langaha	a colubriform snake of Madagascar; its nose is prolonged in the form of a sharp blade.
leatherback	a kind of turtle.
leguaan leguan	(Dutch) a large S. African lizard.
lizard	any member of the Lacertilia, an order of scaly reptiles, usu. differing from snakes in having four legs, movable eyelids, and non-expansible mouths.
loggerhead	a large-headed sea turtle.
mamba	a venomous African snake.
massasauga	a kind of rattlesnake.
matamata	the bearded tortoise of South American rivers.
moccasin mocassin	a kind of N. American pit-viper.
mokomoko	(Maori) a kind of SKINK.
moloch	a spiny Australian lizard.
muggar mugger muggur	a broad-snouted Indian crocodile. [Hindi magar].
naga	a snake, especially the cobra; a divine snake (Hindu mythology).
ngarara	(Maori) a lizard found in New Zealand.
ophidian	of or like a snake.
perentie perenty	(Native Australian) a large Australian monitor lizard.
python	a large snake that suffocates its victims by constriction.
rattler	a rattlesnake.
rattlesnake	a venomous American pit-viper with rattling horny rings on the end of its tail.
reptilian	a reptile.
reptilious	like a reptile.
reptiloid	reptile-like.
ridley	a marine turtle.
ringhals rinkhals	an African snake that spits its venom. Pl. RINGHALSES, RINKHALSES.
saltie	a saltwater crocodile.
saurian	any of a group (Sauria) of reptiles, lizard like.
sauroid	like or pertaining to the saurians.
scincoid scincoidian	(any animal) resembling a SKINK.
seps	a skink of the genus Seps with a serpentlike body.
serpent
serpentry	serpents collectively.
skink	a type of lizard; also a verb, meaning to pour out.
slowworm	a kind of legless lizard.
snake
snakelike	like a snake.
snaky snakey	like a snake > SNAKIER, SNAKIEST.
snakiness	being like a snake.
snakish	having the qualities or characteristics of a snake; snaky.
sphenodon	an animal of the genus, also known as HATTERIA, to which the TUATARA belongs.
sphenodont	relating to a SPHENODON.
stellio	as in stelli lizard, a STELLION.
stellion	an E. Mediterranean lizard with starry spots.
stinkpot	a common musk turtle found in SE Canada and the eastern US, which emits a foul-smelling secretion when disturbed.
sucuruju	a S. American Indian term for the anaconda.
sungazer	an African lizard given to basking in the sun.
surucucu	a S. American Indian name for the bushmaster snake.
synapsid	a reptile of the extinct subclass Synapsida, aka mammal-like reptile.
taipan	an Australian venomous snake.
tegu teguexin	a large black and yellow S. American lizard.
teiid	a tropical American lizard.
thalassian	a type of sea turtle.
tokay	a large gecko of southern Asia and Indonesia.
tortoise
tuatara tuatera	a primitive reptile found in New Zealand, of the genus Hatteria.
uta	any of a genus of large lizards.
varan	a monitor lizard.
viperine	of or pertaining to a viper or vipers; resembling a viper.
viperish	like a viper.
viperishly	in a VIPERISH manner.
viperous	having the qualities of a viper; venomous.
whiptail	a kind of lizard with a long slender tail.
whipsnake	a long thin snake.
worral worrel	an Egyptian fork-tongued lizard, about four feet long when full grown. [Arabic waral, lizard].
zonure	a kind of tropical lizard.

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