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GENUS MOLOCH

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Meaning:

Genus of Australian desert lizard

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Moloch" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "genus Moloch"):

moloch (any lizard of the genus Moloch)

Moloch horridus; mountain devil; spiny lizard (desert lizard that feeds on ants)

Holonyms ("genus Moloch" is a member of...):

Agamidae; family Agamidae (an Old World reptile family of Sauria)

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