Dictionary

teiid en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.

teiid en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any lizard in the family Teiidae.
   • The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects. 2008, R. D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Lizard Care from A to Z: From Anoles to Zonosaurs, page 146:
   • As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together). 2007, Lance D. McBrayer, Clay E. Corbin, “9: Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: morphological correlates of foraging mode”, in Stephen M. Reilly, Lance D. McBrayer, Donald B. Miles, editors, Lizard Ecology, page 293:
   • The teiids we know today are a New World family, ecological counterparts of Old World lacertids. Historically, teiids had a wider distribution, at least in the Northern Hemisphere. 2003, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, published 2006, page 195:

Forms

Deriveds

microteiid

Hyponyms

whiptail (lizard of family Teiidae)