kabaragoya

plural kabaragoyas

1. The water monitor, Varanus salvator, a large lizard of Southeast Asia.

   2012, Arcadius (Shelton A. Gunaratne), Village Life in the Forties: Memories of a Lankan Expatriate, page 150, A kabaragoya, scenting food, tried to drive away the crows, slashing at them with its tail.

   3 more examples

   The Chairman said that Kegalla raised the question of protecting the Kabaragoya from destruction and the Department of Agriculture took up the matter[…].

   1923, The Tropical Agriculturalist, volume 60, page 287

   […]I remember after-school cricket matches on Layard's Road and wickets knocked over by kabaragoyas;[…].

   2007, Amitav Ghosh, Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times, page 37

   Cobras had nothing to fear from men; their most deadly enemy was the kabaragoya, of which two called our campus home.

   2009, H. Ronken Lynton, Veiled Destinies, page 52