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Sceloporus

noun

spiny lizards

• Syn: ↑genus Sceloporus

• Hypernyms: ↑reptile genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Iguanidae, ↑family Iguanidae, ↑Iguania, ↑family Iguania

• Member Meronyms: ↑spiny lizard

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\\sə̇ˈläpərəs\ noun

Etymology: New Latin, from scel- (from Greek skelos leg) + -porous (from Greek poros passage, pore); from the large femoral pores — more at fare

1. capitalized : a large genus of small iguanid lizards of No. and Central America including the pine and sagebrush lizards

2. -es : any lizard of the genus Sceloporus

Useful english dictionary. 2012.