The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word IGUANAS
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More clues leading to the result IGUANAS
- Monitors briefly dropping in heading off prejudice
- A month back, confined to home, like tropical native
- Mislaid ten terribly nauseating beasts
- Lizards that may be using a double disguise
- One sort of fertiliser not round like reptiles
- Frantically using articles to identify animals
- Misrepresented us again as “vegetarian creatures”!
- Area including French overseas department’s promoting island lizards
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What does IGUANAS mean?
IGUANAS noun- A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet
- In zoology, any member of the genus Iguana
- Colloquially, in America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae.
- Colloquially, in Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor -- see leguan
- Colloquially, in Australia, any member of the genus Varanus -- see goanna