UTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uta mean? 

• UTA (noun)
  The noun UTA has 1 sense:

1. a reptile genus of Iguanidae

  Familiarity information: UTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reptile genus of Iguanidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Uta; Uta

Hypernyms ("Uta" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Uta"):

sand lizard; side-blotched lizard; Uta stansburiana (one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States)

Holonyms ("Uta" is a member of...):

family Iguania; family Iguanidae; Iguania; Iguanidae (New World lizards)

 Context examples 

Once the ark is built, Uta–napishti and his family clamber aboard and survive with a menagerie of animals.

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)

Dr Worthington, a Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, said: “Ea tricks humanity by spreading fake news. He tells the Babylonian Noah, known as Uta–napishti, to promise his people that food will rain from the sky if they help him build the ark. What the people don’t realise is that Ea’s nine-line message is a trick: it is a sequence of sounds that can be understood in radically different ways, like English ‘ice cream’ and ‘I scream’.###!!!###

(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)