Home › Words › B › bluebellybluebellybluebelly · noun — sceloporus occidentalis, a North American lizard.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom blue + belly. The ventral abdomen of the adult lizard is characteristically blue. The soldiers wore blue gaberdines.nounSceloporus occidentalis, a North American lizard.A Yankee; a Union soldier during the American civil war.e.g.“The 'bluebelly' instantly disclosed that the troops were Confederate.” — 1989, Paul R. Stevenson, Cross a Wide River, →ISBN:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.sceloporine 57% match — Any lizard of the genus Sceloporus vs bluebelly →firebelly 57% match — fire-bellied toad vs bluebelly →helodermatid 55% match — Any lizard in the family Helodermatidae vs bluebelly →curlytail 53% match — A Caribbean lizard of the family Leiocephalidae. vs bluebelly →eublepharid 52% match — Any lizard in the family Eublepharidae. vs bluebelly →shingleback 52% match — A species of blue-tongued skink, Tiliqua rugosa, with a short, wide, stumpy tail that resembles its head and may serve the purpose of confusing predators. vs bluebelly →shellcracker 52% match — A fish of species Lepomis microlophus. vs bluebelly →hoplocercid 51% match — Any lizard in the family Hoplocercidae. vs bluebelly →