| Noun | 1. | teiid lizard - tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail lizard - relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail family Teiidae, Teiidae - whiptails; etc. whiptail, whiptail lizard - any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards teju - large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard; raid henhouses; used as food caiman lizard - crocodile-like lizard of South America having powerful jaws for crushing snails and mussels |