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Rock-dwelling herbivorous lizard of arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico
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chuckwalla
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n. A lizard, of the genus (taxlink Sauromalus genus noshow=1), living in arid regions of the Southwestern United States.
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Chuckwallas are large lizards found primarily in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Some are found on coastal islands. The five species of chuckwallas are all placed within the genus Sauromalus ; they are part of the iguanid ...
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n. rock-dwelling herbivorous lizard of arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico [syn: Sauromalus obesus ]
Usage examples of chuckwalla.
Its small black eyes glared at them and it bobbed its head like a giant chuckwalla, piping and hissing steadily.
Here and there a chuckwalla darted across the trail or a rock squirrel sat on his haunches and scolded as we passed.
But on the tops of the Chocolate and Chuckwalla ranges no snow fell, although the winter wind sometimes blew cold and bleak.
It was a chuckwalla, a long, slim, greenish-bronze reptile, covered with wonderful spots of vivid colour, and with eyes like jewels.
At a slow walk, they went south out of Desert Center, California, toward the Chuckwalla Mountains.