Tuatara
Tuatara İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Tuatara anlamları
- (noun) A large iguanalike reptile (Sphenodon punctatum) formerly common in New Zealand, but now confined to certain islets near the coast. It reaches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive-green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.
Tuatara tanım:
Kelime: tu·a·ta·ra
Söyleniş: "tü-&-'tär-&
İşlev: noun
Kökeni: Maori tuatàra
: a large spiny quadrupedal reptile (Sphenodon punctatum) of islands off the coast of New Zealand that has a vestigial third eye in the middle of the forehead representing the pineal gland and that is the only surviving rhynchocephalian
[tuatara illustration]