gecko
Any lizard in the infraorder Gekkota.
Other meanings
Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae of small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.
A kind of
- lizard
Kinds of gecko
- flying gecko
- banded gecko
Word history
From Dutch "gekko".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “gecko” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.