Definition of "teiid"

teiid

adjective
not comparable
1. Of or belonging to the Teiidae family of tropical American lizards.
noun
plural teiids
1. Any lizard in the family Teiidae.
  Quotations
  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.
  2003, Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, published 2006, page 195
  As in our study, he found that taxonomic groups cluster together in morphospace (i.e. iguanians together, teiids and varanids together).
  2007, Lance D. McBrayer, Clay E. Corbin, “9: Patterns of head shape variation in lizards: morphological correlates of foraging mode”, in Stephen M. Reilly, Lance D. McBrayer, Donald B. Miles, editors, Lizard Ecology, page 293
  The highly attuned nervous system of racerunners and teiids makes them very adept at locating and grasping prey insects.
  2008, R. D. Bartlett, Patricia Bartlett, Lizard Care from A to Z: From Anoles to Zonosaurs, page 146