Definition of Sceloporus undulatus

1. Noun. Small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia.

Exact synonyms: Eastern Fence Lizard, Pine Lizard
Generic synonyms: Fence Lizard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sceloporus Undulatus

Scarpa's membrane
Scarpa's method
Scarpa's staphyloma
Scarpa's triangle
Scartella
Scartella cristata
Scatchard plot
Sceliphron
Sceloglaux
Sceloglaux albifacies
Sceloporus
Sceloporus graciosus
Sceloporus occidentalis
Sceloporus undulatus
Schacher
Schacher's ganglion
Schadenfreude
Schaeffer-Fulton stain
Schaer's reagent
Schafer
Schafer's method
Schaffer
Schaffer's reflex
Schaffer's test
Schaffhausen
Schaffneria
Schaffneria nigripes
Schamberg

Literary usage of Sceloporus undulatus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The National Zoological Park: A Popular Account of Its Collections by Ned Hollister (1919)
"... known as the swift (sceloporus undulatus), and the little lizard, called the "chameleon" (Anolis carolinensis), are both abundant in favorable ..."

2. The Batrachians and Reptiles of Indiana by Oliver Perry Hay (1892)
"9; sceloporus undulatus, Fit/inger, 1843, 82, 75; Boulenger, 1885, 29, ii, 227. Head broad and flat, tapering to the short and rounded snout. ..."

3. Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians by Junius Henderson, John Peabody Harrington (1914)
"sceloporus undulatus consobrinus (Baird & Girard). Yellow- banded Spiny-scaled Swift. Yarrow reported this species from Santa Fe and described Sceloporus ..."

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