stumptail
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editstumptail (plural stumptails)
- An Australian lizard, Tiliqua rugosa, that has a stumpy tail. [from 19th c.]
- 1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 129:
- In the yellow sand of the track ahead a stumpy tail lizard lies inert.