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Monitor lizard
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goanna
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A goanna is any of several Australian monitor lizards of the genus Varanus , as well as certain species from Southeast Asia. Around 30 species of goanna are known, 25 of which are found in Australia. This varied group of carnivorous reptiles ranges greatly ...
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n. Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia.
Usage examples of goanna.
There is very little room left for even a grasshopper to squeeze in, and some grumpy old ladies like Mrs Owl and Miss Goanna, glare at the younger ones as they try to find a spare seat.
Granny Goanna would eat a possum as soon as look at it, and as for Mrs Snake, she tried to kill me when I was a baby.
Tell him I thought the matter over, and decided that an army of his relations, if hidden in suitable places, could suddenly march out and attack Mrs Snake and Granny Goanna, as they come to steal the babies.
Mrs Snake and Granny Goanna are coming to steal all the babies that live in her tree.
When Mrs Snake and Granny Goanna come along wait for my order to advance.
Granny Goanna placed her two front legs on the tree and prepared to climb.
Thus it came to pass that Johnson, having got the tale by rote, Followed every stray goanna, seeking for the antidote.
Loafing once beside the river, while he thought his heart would break, There he saw a big goanna fighting with a tiger-snake, In and out they rolled and wriggled, bit each other, heart and soul, Till the valiant old goanna swallowed his opponent whole.
He briskly skinned and gutted the goanna, softened its flesh in the fire, and enjoyed a rich meal.
After a supper of kangaroo tail, goanna and the last crust of bread, washed down with rain water, they loaded more wood on the fire and slept warm and snug in the rough bush shelter around the fire.
I started a fire going, woke Kennie and we brewed tea and had a meal with large ants pestering us and a small goanna playing hide and seek in and out of a clump of spinifex.
Land-Rover, watched by a goanna and interrupted periodically by flights of small birds coming into the soak.
Therefore the bag of his wife was always filled with goanna tails, with great porcupines and birds and grubs, though the wife herself got the grubs as well as the fern roots.
Many of the goanna children were drowned, but some came up out of the holes and they climbed the tree.
Not Emu, or Goanna Lizard, or Kangaroo, not a Rainbow Serpent nor a Sky-God nor any of the Ancestors who were here in the Dreamtime.