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salipenter n

(Guyana) A tegu lizard (genus Tupinambis), especially the gold tegu (Tupinambis teguixin). Today is Indian Arrival Day in Guyana, which commemorates the first arrival of indentured labourers from India to the country on this day in 1838.

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