geckotian

English

Noun

geckotian (plural geckotians)

  1. (zoology, obsolete) A gecko.
    • 1831, Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization‎, 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, 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, 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.
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