Definition of Ameiva
:a genus of New World lizards (family Teiidae)
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Ameiva
noun
Amei·va
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əˈmāvə
,
-īvə
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Origin and Etymology of ameiva
borrowed from New Latin, perhaps from an unrecorded word in an indigenous language of Brazil
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