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kabaragoya en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Sinhalese කබරගොයා (kabaragoyā).

Meanings

1. The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.
   • The Chairman said that Kegalla raised the question of protecting the Kabaragoya from destruction and the Department of Agriculture took up the matter[…]. 1923, The Tropical Agriculturalist, volume 60, page 287:
   • […]I remember after-school cricket matches on Layard's Road and wickets knocked over by kabaragoyas;[…]. 2007, Amitav Ghosh, Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times, page 37:
   • Cobras had nothing to fear from men; their most deadly enemy was the kabaragoya, of which two called our campus home. 2009, H. Ronken Lynton, Veiled Destinies, page 52:
   • 2012, Arcadius (Shelton A. Gunaratne), Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate, page 150, A kabaragoya, scenting food, tried to drive away the crows, slashing at them with its tail.

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Translations (3)

de Kabaragoya (Varanus salvator) · ru полоса́тый вара́н (Varanus salvator) · th เหี้ย (Varanus salvator)