monitor lizard meaning

• Noun: monitor lizard
  1. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
     - monitor, varan

  Derived forms: monitor lizards

  Type of: lizard

  Part of: genus Varanus, Varanus

  Encyclopedia: Monitor lizard

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Examples

1. on flores, the only sizable predators were the komodo dragon and another, even larger monitor lizard
2. among the highlights are huge monitor lizards, galapagos turtles, naked mole rats, fruit bats and spiders
3. two metre long monitor lizards scour the shallows for frogs and small fish and dig up the nests of crocodiles to prey on their eggs
4. Scientists have discovered that a monitor lizard is similarly souped up.
5. Cowher is shown with a monitor lizard near his face.