Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Varan \Va"ran\, n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.)
   The monitor. See {Monitor}, 3.

Source : WordNet®

varan
     n : any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa
         and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
         [syn: {monitor}, {monitor lizard}]