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agamid

agamid noun: any member of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons.

agamid: any member of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons
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Noun

agamid (plural agamids)

  1. Any member of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons.
    • 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

Forms of agamid

pluralagamids

Questions about agamid

What does agamid mean?
Agamid means any member of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons.
What part of speech is agamid?
Agamid is a noun.
What is the plural of agamid?
The plural of agamid is agamids.

Words near agamid in the dictionary

  1. agametes
  2. agametic
  3. agami
  4. agamic
  5. agamically
  6. agamid
  7. Agamidis
  8. agamids
  9. agamies
  10. agamis
  11. agamist

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