Agama

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  • noun. An agamid lizard, especially one of the genus Agama.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A genus of small saurian reptiles, typical of the family Agamidæ (which see).
  • noun. [l. c] A member or species of the genus Agama, or of closely related genera: with a plural, agamas (-mäz).
  • The agamous division of mollusks. See agamous, 2.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. small terrestrial lizard of warm regions of the Old World
  • Word Usage
    "The Sling-tailed agama is a large, robust lizard (c. 300 mm long) with an armour-plated look, and it’s wide ranging, occurring across eastern Europe, northern Africa, north-east Arabia and Asia."
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