worral

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Etymology[edit]

From Arabic وَرَل (waral, “monitor lizard”).

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Noun[edit]

worral (plural worrals)

  1. (obsolete) a monitor lizard of Egypt, including both the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) and desert monitor (Varanus griseus).
    • 1744, The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq.:
      The Worral is a Sort of Lizard, which sometimes is thirty or forty Inches in Length, usually of a bright reddish Colour […]
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