Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

teiid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tei-id
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.

noun

Any lizard in the family Teiidae.

Example Sentences

"The teiids we know today are a New World family, ecological counterparts of Old World lacertids. Historically, teiids had a wider distribution, at least in the Northern Hemisphere."
"As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together)."
"The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects."

Inflected Forms

teiids (plural)

Derived Forms

microteiid

Synonyms

teiid lizard

Questions

What does teiid mean?: Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.

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