monitor lizard

短语

巨蜥

发音

其它

词形变化

monitor lizards 复数 monitor lizards

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of various large carnivorous lizards of the family Varanidae, all of whose extant species are of genus Varanus, native to Africa, Asia and Australia.

    巨蜥

  2. 2.

    Also: the earless monitor lizard, Lanthanotus borneensis; the sole member of the family Lanthanotidae.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

monitor varan

上位词 1

lizard

下位词 2

dragon lizard Komodo dragon

词源

From the obsolete taxa Monitor and Lacerta monitor now displaced by Varanus within the single-genus family Varanidae. The word Monitor is a calque of German Warner, which is a loanword from Arabic وَرَن (waran). The conflation of the two words was encouraged by the lizards' habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to monitor their surroundings.

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