teiid lizard vs teju

teiid lizard and teju both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
teiid lizard	Yes	No	No	No
teju	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, teju is a hyponym of teiid lizard; that is, teju is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than teiid lizard:

teiid lizard: tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail
teju: large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard; raid henhouses; used as food

Other hyponyms of teiid lizard include whiptail, whiptail lizard, caiman lizard.

teiid lizard (noun)	teju (noun)
tropical New World lizard with a long tail and large rectangular scales on the belly and a long tail	large (to 3 feet) blackish yellow-banded South American lizard; raid henhouses; used as food