English

A teiid, Teius teyou

Adjective

teiid

1. Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.

Noun

teiid ‎(plural teiids)

1. Any lizard in the family Teiidae.
   • 2003, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, 2006, page 195,

     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.

   • 2007, Lance D. McBrayer, Clay E. Corbin, 9: Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: morphological correlates of foraging mode, Stephen M. Reilly, Lance D. McBrayer, Donald B. Miles (editors), Lizard Ecology, page 293,

     As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together).

   • 2008, R. D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Lizard Care from A to Z: From Anoles to Zonosaurs, page 146,

     The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects.

Hyponyms

• (lizard of family Teiidae): whiptail (genus Cnemidophorus)