Gecko

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  • noun. Any of various chiefly nocturnal tropical and subtropical lizards of the family Gekkonidae, characteristically having toe pads covered with numerous tiny bristles that adhere to vertical surfaces.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A lizard of the genus Gecco or family Gecconidæ; a wall-lizard. Also gecco, gekko. See Gecconidæ.
  • noun. [capitalized] [NL.] Same as Gecco.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Any lizard of the family Geckonidæ. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See wall gecko, fanfoot.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical surfaces.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless
    • Word Usage
    "The whole gecko is evolved to move in exactly the right way to use these forces to run up walls at high speed."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Echo  Eco  Greco  deco  echo  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anaconda  black-satin  bunny-rabbit  chameleon  curly-toed  
    variant
    fanfoot  geckoes  wall gecko  
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