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agamid

noun

  1. any lizard of the family Agamidae
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. Any of the family Agamidae of lizards, including many dragons.

    Bright male colors are exhibited primarily during sexual and aggressive displays in iguanids, agamids, chamaeleonids, gekkonids, lacertids, and teiids.

    Agamids and chamaeleonids are sister-groups, presumably with the chameleons diverging early from an agamid stock. Agamids and chameleons uniquely share an acrodont dentition on the dentary and posterior maxillary.