geckotian
English
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editgeckotian (plural geckotians)
- (zoology, obsolete) A gecko.
- 1831, Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization[1], page 140:
- The Geckotians, is composed of nocturnal lizards, so much resembling each other that they might be left in one genus.
- 1871, Arthur Morelet, Travels in Central America: Including Accounts of Some Regions Unexplored Since the Conquest[2], page 278:
- It proved to be nothing more that a lizard of the geckotian family, hideously ugly, but, in common with all of his kind, perfectly harmless.
- 1890, M. Maurice Maindron, “Dragons, fabled and real”, in The Popular Science Monthly[3], volume 36:
- Other saurians have folds of skin along the flanks; but in no other of them is this disposition so developed as in a curious geckotian, the Ptychozoon homacephalum of Java and other Sunda Islands.