Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Varanus   Listen
proper noun
Varanus  n.  (Zool.) A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Varanus" Quotes from Famous Books



... animals. Large piles of floating trees, stems, branches and bamboos are met with everywhere on the beach above high-water mark and often carried a considerable distance inland. Some of the animals on the island, such as the fat Iguana (Varanus salvator) which suns itself in the beds of streams, may have travelled on floating wood, possibly also the ancestors of the numerous ants, but certainly plants." (Op. cit. page 56.) Darwin actually had a prevision of this. Writing to Hooker he says:—"Would it not be ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



Words linked to "Varanus" :   monitor lizard, reptile genus, Varanidae, Varanus niloticus



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org