bluebelly

A bluebelly

Meaning

Noun

Sceloporus occidentalis (species), a North American lizard.
A Yankee; a Union soldier during the American civil war.

Origin

blue + belly. The ventral abdomen of the adult lizard is characteristically blue. The soldiers wore blue gaberdines.

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