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‖ Tupiˈnambis
[mod.L., said to have been coined by Lamarck, perh. f. Tupi.]
A genus of South American lizards.
Misapplied by Geoffrey to the Egyptian Monitor (Varanus Niloticus), whence app. Lytton's use, quot. 1863.
1839Penny Cycl. XV. 332/1 Cuvier divides them [the Monitors] into two groups, and Fitzinger into three, under the names of Tupinambis, Varanus, and Psammosaurus. 1863Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis ii. ii. i, The museum..presented a very respectable arrangement of gems, scarabaei, sphinxes, stuffed crocodiles, and tupinambes. |