cuatetere
Appearance
Mecayapan Nahuatl
[edit]Etymology
[edit]cuahuiꞌ (“tree”) + *tetere (“basilisk”). Cf. Spanish teterete.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cuatetere
- a lizard of genus Basiliscus sp., most likely Basiliscus vittatus, brown basilisk)
References
[edit]- Basiliscus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 34