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Gila monster   Listen
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Gila monster  n.  (Zool.) A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.






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"Gila monster" Quotes from Famous Books



... of these that is fairly common in the United States and that is found in the deserts of the southwest. It is the largest lizard found there except the Gila Monster which will be described later. The body of the Chuckawalla is broad and the legs short. Its length averages about a foot. It lives mostly among the rocks of ...
— Pathfinder - or, The Missing Tenderfoot • Alan Douglas



Words linked to "Gila monster" :   Heloderma suspectum, venomous lizard, genus Heloderma, Heloderma



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