Teiid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Teiid is an adjective meaning Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.
Meaning
Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.
More Meanings
- Any lizard in the family Teiidae.
Example Sentences
The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects.
As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together).
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.
Word Forms
- teiids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include taenioglossate, iguanian, taxodiaceous, tipuloidean, tetanuran, timaline.
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