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Gecko

noun

(pl. geckoes)

Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless.

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"Gecko" Quotes from Famous Books

... rather remarkable, but we have in India a small lizard, called the gecko by the natives, which is said to be equally venomous. I presume it must be the same animal, and it is singular that the names should vary so little. I have never seen an instance of its poisonous powers, but I have seen ...

— The Mission • Frederick Marryat

Words linked to "Gecko" : fringed gecko, flying gecko, lizard, Ptychozoon homalocephalum, banded gecko