chuckwallas
Meaning of chuckwallas
plural noun
a large dark-bodied lizard, the male of which has a light yellow tail, native to the deserts of the south-western US and Mexico. When threatened, it inflates itself with air to wedge itself into a crevice.
late 19th century: from Mexican Spanish chacahuala, from a North American Indian language.
Information about chuckwallas
- It is a name.
- The singular form of chuckwallas is: chuckwalla.
- Languages in which chuckwallas is used:
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Hyphenation of chuckwallas
chuck-wal-las
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- chuckwallas is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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