fence lizard

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   spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico

   Broaderspiny lizard

   Narrowerwestern fence lizardeastern fence lizard

Questions about fence lizard

What does fence lizard mean?

fence lizard means "spiny lizard often seen basking on fences in the United States and northern Mexico".

Is fence lizard a common word?

fence lizard 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.