giant lizard
Oversized scaly crawler
A giant lizard is any of the larger members of the lizard family, especially monitor lizards like the Komodo dragon, which can exceed ten feet in length.
The term also describes the massive prehistoric reptiles that once roamed the earth, and appears frequently in fantasy and science fiction: The giant lizard emerged from the swamp.
- dragonLegendary fire-breathing reptile
- fire breathingExpelling combustion from mouth
- monitorDisplay or supervisor
- reptileCold-blooded scaled vertebrate
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
dinosaur · prehistoric · lost world · monster movie · tail · claws · forked tongue · cold-blooded · cold blood · basking · carnivore · apex predator · jungle · swamp · creature · beast · serpent · leathery
- Australian Prehistorythylacine, Tasmanian tiger, thunder bird, stromatolites
- Dinosaur Mediadinosaur, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, T-Rex, velociraptor
- Atlantic IslandsAzores, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Madeira, Cape Verde
- fantasy mountspegasus, unicorn, griffin, gryphon, hippogriff
- KaijuGodzilla, Mothra, Rodan, Gojira, Mechagodzilla
- Macaronesian wildlifemonk seal