monitor lizard

Questions about monitor lizard

What does monitor lizard mean?

monitor lizard means "any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles".

What is another word for monitor lizard?

Close synonyms include monitor, varan. 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 monitor lizard a common word?

monitor 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.