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tuatara noun. L19.
[Maori, from tua on the back + tara spine.]
A large lizard-like reptile, Sphenodon punctatum, dark bronze green in colour with a row of yellow spines down its back, now found only on a few islands off New Zealand, and sometimes regarded as the sole living representative of an otherwise extinct order Rhynchocephalia.