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Noun: monitor lizard
  1. Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
    "The Komodo dragon is the largest species of monitor lizard";
    - monitor, varan

Derived forms: monitor lizards

Type of: lizard

Part of: genus Varanus, Varanus

Encyclopedia: Monitor lizard