hatteria

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noun

The tuatara.

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Meanings

nounhatteria (plural hatterias)

plural hatterias

  1. datedThe tuatara.

    This association favours the hatterias which feed on the numerous insects attracted by the birds' excrement.

    1975, Pierre Paul Grassé, Larousse Encyclopedia of the Animal World, page 407
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    The skull of the hatteria is more like that of a crocodile than like that of any other reptile; but on the other hand its legs are like those of the lizard […]

    1891, Julia McNair Wright, Nature Readers: Sea-side and Way-side, number 4, page 163

    A Red-breasted Water lizard, appropriately christened “Robin,” seemed more especially to excite its ire in the vain pursuit of which the hatteria would rush out from its lair with angry gruntings whenever that lizard chanced to trespass too closely […]

    1902, Animal Life and the World of Nature

Origin

  1. translingualHatteria
  2. Englishhatteria

From obsolete translingual Hatteria, which was a genus proposed in 1842 and later rejected.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with hatteria

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APA

hatteria. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatteria

MLA

“hatteria.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatteria. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hatteria,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hatteria.

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