What does blue-belly mean?

blue-belly means "common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks".

How many syllables are in blue-belly?

blue-belly has 3 syllables and divides as blue--bel-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for blue-belly?

Close synonyms include western fence lizard, swift, Sceloporus occidentalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue-belly a common word?

blue-belly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Blue-belly — meaning and 3 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks
Synonymswestern fence lizard swift Sceloporus occidentalis
Broaderfence lizard

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What does blue-belly mean?: blue-belly means "common western lizard; seen on logs or rocks".
How many syllables are in blue-belly?: blue-belly has 3 syllables and divides as blue--bel-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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