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galliwasp

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gal⋅li⋅wasp

  [gal-uh-wosp]
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–noun
any of numerous scaly marsh lizards of the genus Diploglossus, inhabiting Central America and the West Indies.
Origin:
1715–25; earlier gallivache (1683), of unexplained orig.; appar. assimilated to gally, wasp
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gal·li·wasp   (gāl'ə-wŏsp', -wôsp')   
n.  Any of several long-bodied lizards of the genus Diploglossus, native to marshy regions of Central America and the West Indies.

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