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Webster 1913 Edition
Varanus
‖
Va-ra′nus
,p
rop.
Noun.
[NL., fr. Ar.
uaran
, uaral
; cf. F. varan
, from the Arabic.] (Zool.)
A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See
Monitor
, 3.