blue-tongue

Reptile flashing color

Blue-tongue is an Australian skink—a large, slow-moving lizard recognizable by its vivid blue tongue, which it displays as a warning to predators.

Also called blue-tongued lizard or blue-tongued skink.

The name also refers to bluetongue, a viral disease affecting sheep and cattle transmitted by midges.

skink

lizard

Four-legged scaled reptile

  • skinkSleek burrowing lizard
  • reptileCold-blooded scaled vertebrate
  • scalyCovered with thin plates

terrarium · herpetology · ectothermic · basking · omnivore · Australia · docile · burrowing · shed · substrate

disease

virus

Microscopic infectious agent

  • livestockDomesticated farm animals
  • sheepWoolly farm animal
  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially

midges · Culicoides · vector-borne · vaccine · outbreak · infection · fever · lesions · lameness · veterinary

Categories
Opposites
venomousness

blue-tonguevenomous snake

Serpent with toxic bite

death adder · taipan · black mamba · king cobra · brown snake

reptile body type

blue-tonguesnake

Limbless scaled reptile

legless lizard · glass lizard · python · slowworm

temperament

blue-tonguesnapping turtle

Fierce aquatic chelonian

monitor lizard · alligator · crocodile

Family

blue, blues, blued, bluing, blueing, bluish, bluer, bluest, blueness

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G