'Varanus Niloticus' definitions:

Definition of 'Varanus niloticus'

noun

Destroys crocodile eggs [syn: African monitor, Varanus niloticus]

From: GCIDE

Monitor \Mon"i*tor\, n. [L., fr. monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor.]
1. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. [1913 Webster]
You need not be a monitor to the king. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
2. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class. [1913 Webster]
3. (Zool.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (Varanus Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long. [1913 Webster]
4. [So called from the name given by Captain Ericson, its designer, to the first ship of the kind.] An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns. [1913 Webster]
5. (Mach.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting. [1913 Webster]
6. A monitor nozzle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides. [1913 Webster]