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語源

From Arabic وَرَل (waral, “monitor lizard”). Doublet of varan.

発音

• 韻: -ɒɹəl

名詞

worral (plural worrals)

1. (obsolete) a monitor lizard of Egypt, either a Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) or a desert monitor (Varanus griseus).
   • 1744, The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq.:

     The Worral is a Sort of Lizard, which sometimes is thirty or forty Inches in Length, usually of a bright reddish Colour […]