WHIPTAIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whiptail mean? 

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

1. any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHIPTAIL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

whiptail; whiptail lizard

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

teiid; teiid lizard (tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whiptail"):

Cnemidophorus sexlineatus; race runner; racerunner; six-lined racerunner (very swift lizard of eastern and central United States)

Cnemidophorus velox; plateau striped whiptail (having distinct longitudinal stripes: of Colorado Plateau from Arizona to western Colorado)

Chihuahuan spotted whiptail; Cnemidophorus exsanguis (having longitudinal stripes overlaid with light spots; upland lizard of United States southwest and Mexico)

Cnemidophorus tigris; western whiptail (active lizard having a network of dusky dark markings; of semiarid areas from Oregon and Idaho to Baja California)

checkered whiptail; Cnemidophorus tesselatus (markings are darker and more marked than in western whiptail; from southeastern Colorado to eastern Chihuahua)

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

Cnemidophorus; genus Cnemidophorus (whiptails)