agama

From Sranan Tongo agama (“lizard”), from a Gbe language; compare Ewe agama (“chameleon”).

Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.


agama

From New Latin Agama, from Sranan Tongo agama (“lizard”), from a Gbe language; compare Ewe agama (“chameleon”).


Draco

A taxonomic genus within the family Agamidae – gliding lizards from Southeast Asia.


ibid

Philippine sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus pustulatus)


drago

From earlier draco, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Compare dragone, from the Latin accusative form.

E' Guelfi soli di Fiorenza usaron per generale insegna la rossa sopra un drago verde

16ᵗʰ century, Vincenzo Borghini, Dell'arme delle famiglie fiorentine, Florence: Pietro Gaet. Viviani, published 1755, page 44, collected in Discorsi di monsignore D. Vincenzio Borghini - parte seconda:

And the Guelphs of Florence alone used a red one [eagle] above a green dragon as their coat of arms

(zoology) any lizard of the Draco taxonomic genus


frilled lizard

The lizard Chlamydosaurus kingii, native to northern Australia and southern New Guinea, which has a large contractile membranous frill around its neck that usually stays folded against its body but is extended in territorial and courtship display.


bloodsucker

From blood + sucker. Sense 5 (“changeable lizard”) is perhaps because of the reddish color of its neck.

The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).


sanda

bor

Hindi सांडा (sāṇḍā)

The sanda is easily caught by a horse-hair noose placed over the opening of his burrow, which is always of uniform shape, and the exact size of what would be a mid-section of the reptile. The sanda is in great repute as a resotorative and aphrodisiac, and even high caste Hindus, such as Brahmans and Rajpats, boil them down into a strong soup.

1893, North Indian Notes and Queries - Volume 3, page 99:

Bhantus catch the sanda, or broad-tailed lizard, which dwells in rat-holes in the ground and lives always in fear of the cobra, in the following manner: — The Sansi sallies forth with a wooden mallet in one hand and a tuft of tough grass in the other. On his belly he wriggles up to the sanda's hole, rustling the tuft of grass with a noise which resembles the crackling of a snake's scales. The sanda comes up tail foremost, and blocks the orifice with his pachydermatous appendage. The Sansi then delivers a crushing blow with the mallet on the earth an inch or two on the inside of the sanda, closes the passage, cuts off retreat, extracts the lizard and stuffs it into his shirt.

1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122:

A favourite prey species is the sanda or spiny-tailed lizard.

1997, Valmik Thapar, Land of the Tiger: A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent, →ISBN:

A desert reptile, Saara hardwickii, a type of spiny-tailed lizard.


moloch

From Hebrew מולך (molokh, “Ammonite god, worshipped by Canaanites and Phoenicians, who demanded child-sacrifice. Mentioned in Leviticus and Deuteronomy”).

Any of species Moloch horridus of Australian lizards, sole species of the genus Moloch.


beardy

The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills.

1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 242:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded reedling.

But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off[…].

It is impossible to determine the sex of beardies as babies or juveniles, so if you are thinking of breeding them, you may have to buy four or five and raise them in individual enclosures.

2007, Steve Grenard, Bearded Dragon, page 52:

The bearded dragon will reach its adult length by one year. Baby beardies quickly grow into long, strong lizards!

2008, Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon, page 20:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded dragon.

Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.

1996, Andrew De Prisco, James Burris Johnson, Choosing a Dog for Life, page 73:

Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time.

2005, Don Burke, The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets, page 754:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
A bearded collie.

Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.

1864, John Younger, River Angling for Salmon and Trout : With a Memoir and List of the Tweed Salmon Casts, page 180:

(informal) A bearded person or animal:
Any of several kinds of fish; a loach.


Agamidae

A taxonomic family within the order Iguania – often called dragon lizards.


Agama

A taxonomic genus within the family Agamidae – agamid lizards.


nhông

Compare giông and Nghệ An/Hà Tĩnh dialects chôông.


agamid

Bright male colors are exhibited primarily during sexual and aggressive displays in iguanids, agamids, chamaeleonids, gekkonids, lacertids, and teiids.

1992, William E. Dooper, Neil Greenberg, “Reptilian Coloration and Behavior”, in Carl Gans, David Crews, editors, Hormones, Brain, and Behavior, page 398:

Agamids and chamaeleonids are sister-groups, presumably with the chameleons diverging early from an agamid stock. Agamids and chameleons uniquely share an acrodont dentition on the dentary and posterior maxillary.

1993, George R. Zug, Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles, page 439:

Whereas Chamaeleonidae and Iguanidae now appear to be monophyletic, Agamidae is not (Macey et al. 1997) because chameleons evolved from agamids, though they have traditionally been excluded (a problem easily resolved by recognizing a clade called Acrodonta, which includes both agamids and chameleons).

2006, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, page 144:

(zoology) Any of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons.


dabb lizard

Dabb from Arabic ضَبّ (ḍabb, “spiny-tailed lizard”).


stellion

From Latin stellio (“a newt with starlike spots on its back”), from stella (“star”).

der

A lizard (Laudakia stellio or Stellagama stellio). It is olive-green with small stellate spots, commonly found in the rocky areas around the Mediterranean.


spiny-tailed lizard

en-noun

spiny-tailed lizard (plural spiny-tailed lizards)


pogona

From the genus name, from Ancient Greek πώγων (pṓgōn, “beard”).

Additionally, DNA of following species not covered by the assay was tested to exclude cross-reactivity: macaque, budgerigar, pogona, and carp.

2015 July 6, “Automated Forensic Animal Family Identification by Nested PCR and Melt Curve Analysis on an Off-the-Shelf Thermocycler Augmented with a Centrifugal Microfluidic Disk Segment”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A bearded dragon, any lizard of the genus Pogona, native to Australia.


hambubukad

a lizard in the genus Draco; a flying dragon; a flying gecko; a gliding lizard


changeable lizard

changeable lizard (plural changeable lizards)

Calotes versicolor, an Asian agamid that can camouflage itself by changing colour.


hardim

The hardims are of an olive-green color shaded with black, and below a pale yellow.

1888, John Sterling Kingsley, The Riverside Natural History, volume 3, page 414:

The Stellio, sometimes called the Hardim by the Arabs, is a well-known Lizard inhabiting Northern Africa, Syria, and Greece.

1898, John George Wood, Animate Creation: Popular Edition of "Our Living World," a Natural History, volume 5:

(obsolete) Synonym of stellion (a kind of lizard)


galakgak

Possibly related to galak (“joy”). Compare Ilocano garakgak (“loud laughter”), Pangasinan galakgak (“laughter”), Kapampangan galakgak (“burst of laughter”), and Malay gelakak (“hearty chuckling laughter”). The “lizard” senses may be semantic loan from Kapampangan galakgak (“laughter; flying lizard; iguana”).

sl

Draco spilopterus
Wikispecies:Draco spilopterus

(Bataan, obsolete) Philippine flying dragon (Draco spilopterus)


แย้

Cogante with Lao ແຍ້ (nyǣ), Shan ယႄႉ (yâ̰ae).


hardun

Originally distributed from Arabia to western Turkey and on numerous islands of the Aegean Sea, more recently the hardun has been inadvertently transported to northern Greece, Corfu, and the vicinity of Alexandria (Egypt).

2013, Douglas M. Considine and Glenn D. Considine, Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia, page 60:


uyayha

the Negros forest dragon (Gonocephalus sophiae)


dragon lizard

Dragon lizards include frill-necked lizards and thorny devils. They are distinct from other lizards by being spiky, rather than smooth and shiny, and from the unique formation of their teeth.

2019 May 24, Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian:

A member of the Agamidae family of iguanian lizards.


kraaghagedis

Compound of kraag (“frill, collar”) + hagedis (“lizard”).


jacky dragon

A species of agamid lizard, Amphibolurus muricatus, native to south-eastern Australia.


northern water dragon

en-noun

northern water dragon (plural northern water dragons)

A species of agamid lizard, Tropicagama temporalis, native to northern Australia, New Guinea, and southeastern Indonesia.


lashtail

Any of various agamid lizards having long, thin tails.


swamplands lashtail

swamplands lashtail (plural swamplands lashtails)

northern water dragon
northern water dragon


water dragon

Any of various agamid lizards of eastern Asia and Australasia, including the genera Physignathus, Intellagama, and Tropicagama, all of subfamily Amphibolurinae.


Australian water dragon

Australian water dragon (plural Australian water dragons)

A species of agamid lizard, Intellagama lesueurii, native to eastern Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria).


eastern water dragon

eastern water dragon (plural eastern water dragons)

A subspecies of agamid lizard, Intellagama lesueurii lesueurii, native to coastal eastern Australia (from Cooktown southwards to central New South Wales).


Gippsland water dragon

Gippsland water dragon (plural Gippsland water dragons)

A subspecies of agamid lizard, Intellagama lesueurii howittii, native to coastal eastern Australia (from central New South Wales southwards to the Gippsland region of Victora).


frill-necked lizard

frill-necked lizard (plural frill-necked lizards)


frilly lizard

Synonym of frilled lizard (“Chlamydosaurus kingii”)

eastern bearded dragon
eastern bearded dragon#English

Synonym of eastern bearded dragon (“Pogona barbata”)


thorny devil

A lizard of species Moloch horridus, of Australia.


chôông

[t͡ɕoŋ˧˥ ~ coŋ˧˥]

Thằng Đán thua mình bốn tuổi, chỉ sáu tuổi thôi nhưng khôn hơn rận, chuyện gì cũng biết. Nó nói chôông là giống ma đó. Mình nói ma chi. Nó nói ma l. Mình cười he he he, đá đít nó một phát, nói ba trợn. Thằng Đán trợn mắt trương gân cổ lên, nói thiệt đo, anh không tin thì thôi. Mình nhăn răng cười, nói ba láp, nói ma l. răng không giống… Thằng Đán lại trợn mắt trương gân cổ lên, nói anh chộ rồi răng nói không giống, mình tịt câm. Nó nói anh không chộ chôông toàn làm hang ở mả đàn bà à. Nghe cũng có lý

2014, Nguyễn Quang Lập, “Quê choa chí dị”, in Chuyện nhà quê:

Đán was four years younger than me, but he was very clever albeit being only six. He said "the agamas are ghosts". When I asked what kind of ghost they are, he replied that they were "c*nt ghosts". I laughed, kicked his ass and said that he was just making shit up. Đán insisted vehemently that they were real and "if you don't believe me, fine". I grinned, said he was just bullshitting, "if they are really "c*nt ghosts", why do they look nothing alike?"... Đán once again argued back just as vehemently, "Have you seen them or something, how can you be so sure that they look nothing alike?", which shut me up. He said, "Don't you see that the agamas always burrow in women's graves?". "Sounds reasonable", I thought.

(phonetic spelling) North Central Vietnam form of nhông (“agama”)


koggelmander

head

koggelmander (plural koggelmanders, diminutive koggelmandertjie)

koggelmanders (plural)
koggelmandertjie (diminutive)


sunwatcher

One who tracks the movement of the Sun, as to keep time.


earless dragon

Any of the Australian lizards of the genus Tympanocryptis.


eastern bearded dragon

en-noun

eastern bearded dragon (plural eastern bearded dragons)


襟巻蜥蜴

襟巻蜥蜴 (canonical)
erimakitokage (romanization)


hinyayango

hinyayangò (canonical)
ᜑᜒᜈ᜔ᜌᜌᜅᜓ (Baybayin)


anga-anga

/ˌʔaŋaʔ ˈʔaŋaʔ/

[ˌʔaː.ŋɐʔ ˈʔaː.ŋɐʔ]

/ˌʔaŋa(ʔ) ˈʔaŋaʔ/

[ˌʔaː.ŋaː ˈʔaː.ŋɐʔ]


manyayango

manyayangò (canonical)
ᜋᜈ᜔ᜌᜌᜅᜓ (Baybayin)


Psammophilus

Borrowed from Latin psammophilus m (“psammophilous, sand-loving”). Equivalent to psammo- (“sand”) + -philus m (“-philous, -loving”).

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A taxonomic genus within the family Agamidae – certain lizards formerly in the genus Agama, commonly called rock agamas.


Draconinae

A taxonomic subfamily within the family Agamidae – certain agamid lizards.


llangardaix de gorguera

ca-noun

llangardaix de gorguera m (plural llangardaixos de gorguera)


ແຍ້

real objects (in contrast to drawn/painted objects)


Kragenechse

de-noun

Kragenechse f (genitive Kragenechse, plural Kragenechsen)

Kragenechse (genitive)
Kragenechsen (plural)
Kragenechse (nominative singular)
Kragenechsen (definite nominative plural)
Kragenechse (genitive singular)
Kragenechsen (definite genitive plural)
Kragenechse (dative singular)
Kragenechsen (dative definite plural)
Kragenechse (accusative singular)
Kragenechsen (accusative definite plural)

From Kragen (“collar”) + Echse (“lizard”).


Dornteufel

Dornteufel m (strong, genitive Dornteufels, plural Dornteufel)

Dornteufels (genitive)
Dornteufel (plural)
Dornteufel (nominative singular)
Dornteufel (definite nominative plural)
Dornteufels (genitive singular)
Dornteufel (definite genitive plural)
Dornteufel (dative singular)
Dornteufeln (dative definite plural)
Dornteufel (accusative singular)
Dornteufel (accusative definite plural)

From Dorn (“thorn”) + Teufel (“devil”), calque of English thorny devil.


водяная ящерица

ru-noun+

водяна́я я́щерица • (vodjanája jáščerica) f anim (genitive водяно́й я́щерицы, nominative plural водяны́е я́щерицы, genitive plural водяны́х я́щериц)

водяна́я я́щерица (canonical)
vodjanája jáščerica (romanization)
водяно́й я́щерицы (genitive)
водяны́е я́щерицы (nominative plural)
водяны́х я́щериц (genitive plural)
водяна́я я́щерица (nominative singular)
водяны́е я́щерицы (nominative plural)
водяно́й я́щерицы (genitive singular)
водяны́х я́щериц (genitive plural)
водяно́й я́щерице (dative singular)
водяны́м я́щерицам (dative plural)
водяну́ю я́щерицу (accusative singular)
водяны́х я́щериц (accusative plural)
водяно́й я́щерицей (instrumental singular)
водяно́ю я́щерицею (instrumental singular)
водяны́ми я́щерицами (instrumental plural)
водяно́й я́щерице (prepositional singular)
водяны́х я́щерицах (plural prepositional)

[vədʲɪˈnajə ˈjæɕːɪrʲɪt͡sə]

водяно́й (vodjanój, “water”, adjective) + я́щерица (jáščerica, “lizard”)

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Australian water dragon
Australian water dragon#English

Australian water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii)


balubid

Hydrosaurus pustulatus
Wikispecies:Hydrosaurus pustulatus

Philippine sailfin lizard (Hydrosaurus pustulatus)


Bufoniceps

Latin būfō (“toad”) + -ceps (“-headed”), literally “toad-headed”

A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Agaminae – the Laungwala long-headed lizard or Rajasthan toad-headed lizard, a lizard from India.