NOUN
- any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
How To Use monitor lizard In A Sentence
- On Flores, the only sizable predators were the Komodo dragon and another, even larger monitor lizard.
- Leopards, hyenas, jackals, sloth bears, cobras, pythons, mongooses and monitor lizards move silently through its forests.
- While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
- Because of the rich diversity of this region, Nicobari pigeons, wild pigs, monitor lizards, tortoises, and crocodiles thrive there.
- In the end, they supplied the moviemakers with three monitor lizards and six bearded dragon lizards.
- The herpetofauna includes black-necked spitting cobra Naja nigricollis, African puff adder Bitis arietans, west African sand boa Eryx muelleri, sand viper Cerastes cerastes, desert monitor lizard Varanus griseus and various species of gecko. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
- While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
- Reptiles include water snakes, Indian python Python molurus (V), banded krait Bungarus fasciatus, green rat snake Zaocys nigromarginatus, turtles (Lissemys punctatus, Trionyx gangeticus, Kachuga tectum and Hardella thurgi) and monitor lizard Varanus sp. Keoladeo (Bharatpur) National Park, India
- I hurried over and he pointed out an enormous monitor lizard which had just crawled out of the water to sun itself on a rock.
- And sure enough, when the gular pumping was eliminated, the monitor lizards acted more like Carrier's green iguanas.
