monitor lizard
Meaning
- Any of various large carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae, all of whose extant species are of genus Varanus, native to Africa, Asia and Australia.
- Also: the earless monitor lizard, Lanthanotus borneensis; the sole member of the family Lanthanotidae.
Translations
varan
Waran
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Varanus niloticus
varano
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varàEtymology
From the obsolete taxa Monitor and Lacerta monitor now displaced by Varanus within the single-genus family Varanidae. The word Monitor is a calque of German Warner, which is a loanword from Arabic وَرَن (waran). The conflation of the two words was encouraged by the lizards' habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to monitor their surroundings.
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