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gridiron-tailed lizard
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gridiron-tailed lizard, n.
a lizard having a long tail with black bands (Callisaurus draconoides ), which lives in the deserts of the southwestern U. S. and Mexico; called also zebra-tailed lizard . [PJC]
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