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Gila monster   Listen
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Gila monster  n.  (Zool.) A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.






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"Gila monster" Quotes from Famous Books



... vocabulary more opprobrious than "nerves," which could be applied to a woman, it was "hysterics." The great specialist had admitted nerves; hysterics had no standing with him. Linda herself had no more use for a hysterical woman than she had for a Gila monster. She straightened suddenly, and in removing her hands from her face she laid one on ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... knight-errant of never-ending space, a wicked comet. To Arizona gave he playthings many: the rattlesnake, hairy tarantelas and stinging scorpions, horned toads and centipedes, a scented hydrophobia-cat, the Gila monster, a Mexican and the Apache; also ...
— Tales of Aztlan • George Hartmann

... of the curious lizard found in our Western Territories and in Mexico, and variously known as the "Montana alligator," "the Gila monster," and "the Mexican ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various



Words linked to "Gila monster" :   venomous lizard, Heloderma suspectum, genus Heloderma, Heloderma



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