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From scientific Latin Varanidae (family name).

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varanid (plural varanids)

  1. Any lizard of the genus Varanus; a monitor lizard.
    • 2017 May 17, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian[1]:
      Although fossils of giant varanids had been known since the mid-1800s, the discovery that giant lizards were still among us, albeit on a few isolated islands in far-away Southeast Asia, was met with fascination and excitement.

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