Monitor lizard in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “monitor lizard” in Hindi is मनीटर छिपकली, pronounced biskhopara — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
From the obsolete taxa Monitor and Lacerta monitor now displaced by Varanus within the single-genus family Varanidae. The word Monitor is a calque of German Warner, which is a loanword from Arabic وَرَن (waran). The conflation of the two words was encouraged by the lizards' habit of standing on their hind legs and appearing to monitor their surroundings.
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