Tegu is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like city or metropolis. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tegu meaning
- Any of the South American lizards of the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae.
- especially any of genus Tupinambis, which is sometimes kept as a pet.
Synonyms of Tegu
Using Tegu
- The main meaning on this page is: Any of the South American lizards of the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae. | Any of the South American lizards of the families Teiidae and Gymnophthalmidae. | especially any of genus Tupinambis, which is sometimes kept as a pet.
- Useful related words include: taegu, city, metropolis, urban center.
Context around Tegu
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tegu
- In this selection, "tegu" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, wandering and lizard stand out and add context to how "tegu" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include holds a tegu lizard as and south american tegu wandering across. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tegu" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tegu
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Minnesota Zoo naturalist Donald Crook holds a tegu lizard as he walks around the auditorium. (15 words)
Tegu can grow to about five feet in length, and this specific kind has distinctive black and white scales along its body. (22 words)
A game warden in Vermont responded an unusual situation when witnesses reported spotting a large lizard -- a South American tegu -- wandering across a road. (24 words)
A game warden in Vermont responded an unusual situation when witnesses reported spotting a large lizard -- a South American tegu -- wandering across a road. (24 words)
Tegu can grow to about five feet in length, and this specific kind has distinctive black and white scales along its body. (22 words)
Minnesota Zoo naturalist Donald Crook holds a tegu lizard as he walks around the auditorium. (15 words)
Example sentences (3)
Tegu can grow to about five feet in length, and this specific kind has distinctive black and white scales along its body.
A game warden in Vermont responded an unusual situation when witnesses reported spotting a large lizard -- a South American tegu -- wandering across a road.
Minnesota Zoo naturalist Donald Crook holds a tegu lizard as he walks around the auditorium.