tuatara
IPA: tˈuʌtˈɑrʌ
noun
- A reptile, Sphenodon punctatus, native to New Zealand, that resembles lizards and is the only surviving rhynchocephalian.
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Examples of "tuatara" in Sentences
- Thanks for the copyedit at tuatara.
- Look at Tuatara for an extreme example.
- An example I like to use is the tuatara.
- Tuatara is a mutant born with the three eyes.
- Near the entrance is an enclosure for tuatara.
- It is closely related to lizards and the tuatara.
- Many thanks for your spontaneous help on tuatara.
- Hi, thanks for contributing to the tuatara article.
- In this respect, they can be compared with the tuatara.
- The word "tuatara" is derived from a Maori word meaning "spiny back."
- Henry the tuatara is a dad at 111 - Australasia, World - The Independent
- The tuatara has a third eye on the top of its head called the parietal eye.
- The tuatara is a reptile species whose roots go back to the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
- Zealand -- the "tuatara" or Sphenodon -- entered its area at a still earlier stage of surface change.
- "dinosaur forests", unusual birds and living fossils such as tuatara, giant kauri snails and mute frogs.
- The tuatara, a nocturnal lizardlike reptile from New Zealand, shares a nest with the diurnal petrel, a sea bird.
- Despite this, scientists have been surprised to find that the tuatara is the "fastest evolving" creature on the genetic level.
- One endangered reptile in an order of its own, called a tuatara, has a light receptive organ on its head; almost like a third eye.
- In your mind, you're walking past the entrance to the Matterhorn, past the statue by the bucket fountain which nobody can ever agree on, as to if it's a frog or a tuatara, which is quite bizarre, you realise now, considering how utterly different they are.
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