Tuatara

//tuːəˈtɑːɹə//

Synonyms for "tuatara" (5 found)

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Related words (2)

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Translations

19 translations across 14 languages.

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Assamese

1 entries
  • টুৱাটাৰা noun (reptile)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 楔齒蜥 /楔齿蜥 noun (reptile)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 楔齒蜥 /楔齿蜥 noun (reptile)

Dutch

1 entries
  • brughagedis noun (reptile)

Finnish

1 entries
  • tuatara noun (reptile)

French

1 entries
  • sphénodon noun (reptile)

German

1 entries
  • Brückenechse noun (reptile)

Japanese

1 entries
  • ムカシトカゲ noun (reptile)

Māori

1 entries
  • tuatara noun (reptile)

Polish

3 entries
  • hatteria noun (reptile)
  • tuatara noun (reptile)
  • łupkoząb noun (reptile)

Russian

2 entries
  • гатте́рия noun (reptile)
  • туата́ра noun (reptile)

Samoan

1 entries
  • tuatala noun (reptile)

Spanish

2 entries
  • tuatara noun (reptile)
  • tuátara noun (reptile)

Swedish

2 entries
  • bryggödla noun (reptile)
  • tuatara noun (reptile)

Sample sentences

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In New Zealand the dinosaurs had perished 65 million years before, as they had elsewhere on the globe; but the sphenodons or tuataras who had been their contemporaries from Jurassic times persisted, in New Zealand but nowhere else, for reasons that remain obscure.

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