NOUN
- large orange and black lizard of southwestern United States; not dangerous unless molested
How To Use Gila monster In A Sentence
- Gila monster in which the front of the tongue was a bifurcated chemosensor and the back of the tongue remained a thick, papillae-covered organ used to slide food back into the throat. Wired Top Stories
- Arizona reptile collectors thus take reticulated Gila monsters across the state line, sell them, and then immediately buy them back, so that the creature comes with a California bill of sale.
- Beaded lizards and Gila monsters are opportunistic foragers, just as monitors are, eating any palatable thing they find.
- Extending into The Gila the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts offer the desert element complete with yucca, mesquite, cactus, lizards, snakes, scorpions and the venomous Gila Monster.
- One is called the beaded lizard and this is called the Gila monster because it's from the Gila River area. CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2008
- In Arizona, it is illegal for an individual to own a reticulated Gila monster, but not in California, where the reticulated variety is not resident.
- Gila monsters, rattlesnakes and other reptiles will be drawn to water in gardens, especially during the dry summer months.
- Many of those herps bear terrifying names - like that of the Gila monster, Heloderma suspectum, the ‘suspicious warty-skinned one.’
