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beaded lizard

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noun

  1. a large, stout-bodied, venomous lizard, Heloderma horridum, inhabiting western Mexico, having black, beadlike scales with yellow to pinkish spots and splotches.

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The Zoo: San Diego In this new episode the zoo staff cares for an abandoned beaded lizard found in a local yard.

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