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chuckwalla

chuck·walla

uncommon

noun

1.

rock-dwelling herbivorous lizard of arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish chacahuala, from either Shoshone tcaxxwal or Cahuilla cháxwal.

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