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Gila monsters

Gila monsters is the plural of Gila monster.

Meaning of Gila monster

Noun

Gila monster (plural Gila monsters)

  1. A venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, that lives in the deserts of the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico.
    • Ever see one a them Gila monsters take hold, mister? Grabs hold, an’ you chop him in two an’ his head hangs on.1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 13, in The Grapes of Wrath, page 132

Questions about Gila monsters

What is Gila monsters the plural of?
Gila monsters is the plural of Gila monster.

Words near Gila monsters in the dictionary

  1. GIL
  2. Gil Gil
  3. gila
  4. Gila County
  5. Gila monster
  6. Gila monsters
  7. Gila River
  8. Gila trout
  9. Gila trouts
  10. Gila woodpecker
  11. Gilad

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