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Iguanidae

🔄 Synonyms of "Iguanidae"

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Word	Definition
iguanianoun	new world lizards
family iguanianoun	new world lizards
family iguanidaenoun	new world lizards

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Iguanidae"

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Word	Definition
family iguanianoun	new world lizards
family iguanidaenoun	new world lizards
iguanianoun	new world lizards
iguanomorpha	Iguania is an infraorder of squamate reptiles that includes iguanas, chameleons, agamids, and New World lizards like anoles and phrynosomatids.
iguanodontianoun	—
iguanodontidae	a family of iguanodontians belonging to Styracosterna, a derived clade within Ankylopollexia.
iguananoun	A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
liolaemus	a genus of iguanian lizards, containing many species, all of which are endemic to South America.
agamidae	a family of over 550 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe.
alligatoroidnoun	Any crocodilian of the superfamily Alligatoroidea, which includes a number of extinct genera as well as the family Alligatoridae (alligators and caimans).
alligatoridae	The family Alligatoridae of crocodylians includes alligators, caimans and their extinct relatives.
iguanodonnoun	Any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
corytophanidae	a family of iguanian lizards, also called casquehead lizards or helmeted lizards, endemic to the New World.
mosasauridnoun	Any member of the Mosasauroidea, an extinct superfamily of Late Cretaceous lizards including the mosasaurs and aigialosaurs.
phrynosomatidae	a diverse family of lizards, sometimes classified as a subfamily (Phrynosomatinae), found from Panama to the extreme south of Canada.
galapagos land iguana	The Galápagos land iguana (Conolophus subcristatus) is a very large species of lizard in the family Iguanidae, and one of three species of the genus Conolophus.
reptilenoun	(informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc.
sauropodomorpha	(from Greek, meaning "lizard-footed forms") an extinct clade of long-necked, herbivorous, saurischian dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives.
dactyloidae	a family of lizards commonly known as anoles and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay.
brachiosauridae	The ("arm lizards", from Greek brachion = "arm" and sauros = "lizard") a family or clade of herbivorous, quadrupedal sauropod dinosaurs.