Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny of the South American lizards of the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae. · In particular, any member of the genus Tupinambis, which is sometimes kept as a pet.
From teguexin, from Nahuatl tecoixin (“lizard”).
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